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• Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Greed, Choice, Choosing

• There is enough for the needy but not for the greedy.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed

• They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

  Denis Kearney

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greed, Natural

• Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it’s hard to make your peace with.

  Brad Pitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Epidemic, Greed

• I didn’t do it because of the underlying greed that’s prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

  Danny DeVito

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Greed, Reason

• It means zero to be against greed.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Greed

• The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

  Ben Nicholson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beast, Greed

• I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

  Sheryl Crow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Greed

• While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

  Andrew Lo

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Greed, While

• 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