Greedy Quotes
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett -
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
Viktor Korchnoi
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
Oscar Wilde -
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
Inbee Park -
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
Tanith Lee -
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong -
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
Thomas More
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We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own.
Sallust -
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
Diogenes -
Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
Jack Gilbert -
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.
Helen Gurley Brown
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We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth; of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!
David LaChapelle -
One of the ideals Margaret Thatcher grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.
Hilary Mantel -
Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
Plutarch -
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom would have a lot more.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.
Andrew Fastow -
Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
Tami Hoag
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He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
Seneca the Younger -
What Margaret Thatcher made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.
Hilary Mantel -
There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.
Melanie Klein