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• During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don’t have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Greed, Two

• Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

  Sepp Blatter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, Greed

• For greed, all nature is too little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Greed

• Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

  Charles Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed, Kind

• As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

  Rick Danko

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Greed, American

• Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed, Person, Satisfaction

• Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

  Etty Hillesum

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Greed

• Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

  Kenneth Clark

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed, Principles

• What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

  Samuel Gompers

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Solidarity, Greed, Dreams, Labor

• If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fault, Replaced, Greed, Insect

• Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

  Marc Estrin

  Topics in Education, Fear, Kindness, Love

  Tags in Gratitude, Sharing, Stupidity, Greed, Learning

• The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour — property, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Beauty, Ideals, Success, Truth, Vision

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Greed

• It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Ideals, Justice, Service

  Tags in Greed

• To greed, all nature is insufficient.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed

• Not everything you want is everything you really need. The standard of society is motivated by greed. Are you prepared to follow, tell me, are you prepared to lead? So perservere and you’ll succeed.

  Shaggy

  Topics in Leadership, Success

  Tags in Greed

• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Innocence, Greed

• Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

  Amy Lowell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed

• Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society’s losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job.

  Neal Boortz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed

• The same law of nature, that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property…. As much as anyone can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labor fix a property in: whatever is beyond this is more than his share, and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

  John Locke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed

• There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed