Carnegie were more determined than today’s management to make US companies successful, since they owned such a high percentage of them. You, the stockholders, are all being royally screwed over by these... bureaucrats, with their steak lunches, their hunting and fishing trips. If a person is being "screwed over," they are being cheated or treated very poorly ("Royally" in this case means extremely, though as an adjective it generally refers to a King or Queen). A "bureaucrat" is a negative way of referring to a person who works in a big office. Their corporate jets and golden parachutes. An expression for the huge amounts of money or stock that some executives get when they are forced to leave a company (A parachute is the device that allows a person to jump safely out of a plane). This is an outrage! You’re out of line, Gekko! An "outrage" is any type of behavior that is considered extremely cruel or inappropriate. If a person is "out of line," they are behaving in a completely inappropriate or unacceptable way. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. The "law of evolution" is Charles Darwin’s theory of how animals change over millions of years. "Survival of the fittest" means that those animals (or businesses) that are the most fit, or strongest, will survive (though note Gekko teases the executives by saying unfittest). The point is that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. The most famous line in this movie! "For lack of" a better word is another way of saying "because there is no" better word. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. "To clarify" something is to make it clear, and in this case, "to cut through" is also to clarify or expose it so that it can be clearly seen. "The essence" of something is it’s central or most important quality. Greed in all it’s forms…has marked the upward surge of mankind. A "surge" is a dramatic and fast movement. I’m getting psychotic from a lack of REM sleep. If a person is "psychotic," they are crazy or deluded. "REM" sleep is the deepest part of a person’s sleep, when they get the most rest. I’m going to be an entrepreneur in the Italian 16th century sense of the word. A mover, a shaker. I’m shooting for the stars. An "entrepreneur" is a French word for a person who starts and grows small businesses. "Movers and shakers" are very powerful people in business who effect many others with their financial decisions. Ben convinces himself that he and he and Gekko can save Blue Star Airlines, but Carl sees a trap. Blue Star is an unpolished gem, right out of the garbage. An "unpolished gem" is a piece of jewelry that is not recognized for its beauty because it has not been po
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