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• Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
  1. Think short term.
  2. Be greedy.
  3. Believe in the greater fool
  4. Run with the herd.
  5. Overgeneralize
  6. Be trendy
  7. Play with other people's money

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• See, ma'am, frankly speaking this problem can't be solved by us police or military. The problem with these tribals is they don't understand greed. Unless they become greedy there's no hope for us. I have told my boss, remove the force and instead put a TV in every home. Everything will be automatically sorted out.

  Arundhati Roy

  Military, Home, Greed

  "Gandhi, but with guns: Part One" by Arundhati Roy, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Jewels, Rivers

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

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• I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

  Ivan Boesky

  Thinking, Feel Good, Greed

  18 May 1986 See Film Lines 184

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• Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Enemy

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2004.

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• The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

  Herbert Hoover

  Conservative, Trouble, Damn

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Opposites, Prosperity

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• People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

  George Aiken

  People, World, Way

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• Mother always said you were greedy.

  Ralph Bellamy

  Mother, Money, Said

  "Fictional character: Randolph Duke". "Trading Places", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Nature, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Soul, Generations

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• 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

  Vanity, People, Want

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• He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Hardship

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• Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

  Mark Cuban

  Pigs, People, Trying

  "Mark Cuban predicted the NFL's ratings free fall years ago - and his theory might be coming true" by Nathan McAlone, www.businessinsider.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

  David Mamet

  Ambitious

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• On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

  Lawrence Reed

  People, Heartless, Stripes

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• King George III may have been a greedy ‘control freak,’ but at least he was a Christian. The United States is being run by a Muslim bent on furthering an Islamic caliphate who seeks to destroy our spirituality and the body politic of our Judeo-Christian roots.

  Larry Klayman

  Christian, Running, Kings

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• People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Greed, Too Much

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• And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, World, Our Society

  Second Public Talk at Ojai, May 21, 1944.

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• Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

  Oscar Wilde

  Littles, Share

  "Complete Works of Oscar Wilde".

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• As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

  Colin Firth

  Want, Stuff, Next

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• A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

  Marian Anderson

  Grace, Singers, Moments

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• One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Son, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

  Manny Farber

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.517, Library of America

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• A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

  Thomas Nagel

  Conceited, Psychology, May

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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