When real-life "Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort first arrived on Wall Street, in his mind echoed the self-serving message of Gordon Gekko, the cutthroat, stock-trading lead character in Oliver Stone's cinematic drama: "Greed is good."
A few decades and a lot of hard-won wisdom later, he's adopted a much different mantra.
"Greed is not good," he told an audience of thousands Monday morning during his keynote speech at RIMS 2014′s general session, in a packed banquet hall at the Colorado Convention Center. "Passion is good. Ambition is good. Success without ethics and morality is not success. It's failure."
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Shawn Moynihan
Shawn Moynihan is Editor-in-Chief of National Underwriter Property & Casualty. A St. John’s University alum, Moynihan has earned 11 Jesse H. Neal Awards, the Pulitzers of the business press; seven Azbee Awards, from the American Society of Business Press Editors; two Folio Awards; and a SABEW award, from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers. Prior to joining ALM, he served as Managing Editor/Online Editor of journalism institution Editor & Publisher, the trade bible of the newspaper industry. Moynihan also has held editorial positions with AOL, Metro New York, and Newhouse Newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].
