I've traded my way to fortune by pioneering risk arbitrage and remain one of Wall Street's most feared traders. I increased my fortune when I married my lovely wife, Kate. Katie happens to be the daughter of hotelier Frederick Wisher. Now I'm moving New York real estate, buying and selling with the same zeal I used during my many mergers and acquisitions.
Keep in mind people, the richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work; two thirds comes from inheritance (interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons) plus the work I do -- stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. you got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own...
You may ask how much is enough. Well, it's not a question of enough. 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... The point is... 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. Greed, in all of it's forms - greed for life, for money, for knowledge, for sex - has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed - you mark my words - will not only save the faltering American business economy; it will save that other malfunctioning corporation we call the USA. Thank You.
