What was the main message of Gordon Gekko's Greed Speech? Greed is bad and severely undermines the corporation's overall position. Greed is bad and agents' selfish actions cannot be redacted. Greed is good and there's the basic management needs for management to act selfishly. Greed is good and there's the basic management needs for efficiency, accountability, stake in the company, and a liberator role when management fails. O Greed is neither good nor bad. Its mere existence suggests that corporations need to align interests.