You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal.^[1]

I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.^[2]

Corporations are people, my friend.^[3]

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.^[4]

Don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.^[5]

Let Detroit go bankrupt.^[6]

It's wreckable, alright? I took another look at it and changed my mind!^[7]

From now on, it's me, me, me.^[8]

[Speaking about company layoffs] Sometimes the medicine is a little bitter.^[9]

There are people all over the world who would love a job flipping hamburgers in America.^[10]

I like firing people.^[11]

Make a profit. That's the name of the game, right?^[12]

It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.^[13]