Greed Is Good Quotes

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  Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Effort, Greed, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

  Rebecca M. Blank

  Hard Work, People, Greed

  "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Cutting, Essence

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• What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Funny Money, Street Life

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• For greed, all nature is too little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Philosophical, Greed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

  Michael Douglas

  Business, Greed

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• Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

  Julian Casablancas

  Greed, Injustice, Currents

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• Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Sex, Greed, Forever

  "The Informers". www.imdb.com. October, 2008.

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• A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

  Michael Douglas

  Money, Stupid, Greed

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• Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

  Little Richard

  Taken, Greed, Soul

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

  Michael Douglas

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

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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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• Money itself isn’t lost or made.  It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

  Michael Douglas

  Perception, Lost, Made

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• Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

  Michael Douglas

  Greed, Said, Seems

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• Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.

  Walter Wink

  Biblical, Fighting, Simple

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• Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!'

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Talking, Greed

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