Greedy Quotes

• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Patience, Beach, Nature

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

  Chanakya

  Education, Spiritual, Moving

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• Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Change, Money

  "It Would Be Fun To Start Over Again". The American Magazine, Volume 91, April 1921.

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• The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Movement, Timeless, Share

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt on 'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories'". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 5, 2011.

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• We risk all in being too greedy.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Greed, Risk, Greediness

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• He who is greedy is always in want.

  Horace

  Money, Greed, Investing

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• The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Can Do

  "LIVESTRONG America" by Jon Kraushar, www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2009.

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• The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

  Saadi

  Men, Greed, World

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• There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

  Jay Baer

  Greed, Listening, Nausea

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• You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Want, Buffets

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Trust, Bravery, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Sleep, Dragons

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fickle, Literature, May

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• The point is that you can't be too greedy.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Greediness

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.48, Ballantine Books

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• In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.

  Muhammad al-Baqir

  Grief, Escaping, Greed

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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

  Success, Money, Fear

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.166, John Wiley & Sons

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• Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

  Robert G. Allen

  Leadership, Dream, Crazy

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Anger, Jealous

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• I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

  Walter Annenberg

  Character, Pigs, Want

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• There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  James Earl Jones

  Greed, Nausea, Lines

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• There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Greed

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Baby, Doe

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White Man, Vaccines

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• Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Funny, Money, Economy

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• 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

  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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