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Quotes from some of the leaders in investing, business,
and finance. Includes quotes about Greed, being greedy, corporate greed,
and wanting more than your fair share.
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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 -
Investing
- Fear
This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control
oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)
Jimmy
Carter - War
- Greed
- Power
If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven
solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the
stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are
that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.
Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi - Environment
- Business
Ethics - Greed
- Profits
- Companies
- Jobs
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
BC
Forbes - Rich
- Failure
- Greed
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of
plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having
skills which are not being used.
Milton
Friedman - Poverty
- Greed
If your thinking is sloppy, your business will be sloppy. If you are disorganized,
your business will be disorganized. If you are greedy, your empoyees will be greedy,
giving you less and less of themselves and always asking for more.
Michael
Gerber - Business
- Thinking
- Employee
- Greed
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price
fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of
most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
Benjamin
Graham - Stock
Market - Investing
- Greed
- Fear
If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie
and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the
people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.
Jay
Leno - Greed
- Life -
Philanthropy
I think one of the most misunderstood things about business in America is
that people are either doing things for altruistic reasons or they are greedy
and selfish, just after profit. That type of dichotomy portrays a false image
of business. It certainly is a false image of Whole Foods. The whole idea is to
do both: The animals have to flourish, but in such a way that it'll be cheap enough
for the customers to buy it.
John
Mackey - Customers
- Business
- Business
Ethics - American
- Greed
- Profits
The nature of any human being, certainly
anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal
you give the customer, the worse deal it
is for you'.
Bernard
Madoff - Wall
Street - Customers
- Greed
- Deals
- Human
Being
You had a lot of novice investors who got
into the market looking for easy money,
without any regard to the fundamentals.
These stocks were running on fumes. (Madoff
talking about the Internet bubble)
Bernard
Madoff - Investing
- Greed
- Stocks
- Money
- Risk
- Bull
Market
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap
where they never sowed.
Karl
Marx - Real
Estate - Laziness
- Landlord
- Greed
I don't mind paying people more for something
if we're getting more. But just to change
a deal because you're greedy and you want
more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.
Vince
McMahon - Work
- Greed
-
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It
is a form of energy that tends to make us
more of who we already are, whether it's
greedy or loving.
Dan
Millman - Money
- Greed
- God
One of the most ironic things about capitalism
is that the capitalist will sell you the
rope to hang himself with. Actually they
will give you the money to make a movie
that makes them look bad, if they believe
they can make money off it.
Michael
Moore - Capitalism
- Greed
- Profits
- Money
The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with
Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries.
They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael
Moore - Greed
- America
- War - Business
- Rich -
Government
My take on
the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of
money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely.
I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium.. as everyone's printing
press.. is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the
bubble.
Craig
Newmark - Greed
- Internet
- Money
- Media
We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit..
and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive
another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's
a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.
Daniel
Quinn - Nature
- World
- Insanity
- Greed
- Problems
- Environmental
- Responsibility
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
Seneca
- Poverty
- Desire
At
the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.
Kerry
Stokes - Losing
- Greed
We can’t impede progress in the name
of environmental action that yields little
for the environment and even less for our
people.. and we should look at the environment
as an economic opportunity.
Meg
Whitman - Economy
- Growth
- Environmental
- Greed
- Opportunity
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