Greed Quotes
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
Carl Hiaasen -
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
Jack Kornfield
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What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
Samuel Gompers -
The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I’m kidding. But killing helps.
Douglas Coupland -
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
Rita Mae Brown -
I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
David Crosby The Byrds -
I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.
Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys -
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.
G. Stanley Hall
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
Vanna Bonta -
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
Aaron Swartz -
Ted Geisel was trying to make a statement about awareness and personal responsibility. He was very clear about that. But the ideas and themes in 'The Lorax' go beyond a love of trees. It's also a story about the dangers of greed and the power of redemption. That's what makes it a timeless tale.
Chris Meledandri -
We are living in a world where greed has become for the wealthiest people their own religion, and they make no apologies for it.
Bernie Sanders -
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
Deepak Chopra -
Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
J. C. Chandor -
There are millions and millions of people who are tired of establishment politics, who are tired of corporate greed, who want a candidate that will help lead a mass movement in this country. ... What people are saying is, 'Enough is enough. The billionaire class cannot have it all.'
Bernie Sanders -
I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.
Brad Feld -
If you're wondering by now who I am, look no further than the mirror,Because I am the greed and fear - and every ounce of hate in you.
Paul Weller Incognito -
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.
Conrad Black
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr -
I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
Paddy Considine -
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
Larry Hagman -
Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
Walter Gropius