According to psychologist Lola Lopes, fear and hope (not greed) are the two main emotions driving most investors.
The essence of democratic capitalism is not greed or rapaciousness, human emotions that have been with us since the beginning.
Key point here--it's not greed that drives successful societies.
As the boom is not an excess of greed, so the bust is not a greed-deficit.
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As a CEO, Jobs led from passion for his business and his product, not from greed or ego.
That sucking sound you hear may not be greed at all, but fiat.
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The problem is not employer greed, but rather government mandates on employers.
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He reportedly told them he was motivated not by greed, but rather a love of computers and an ambition to be a software developer.
And while the article speculates about many reasons why the wealthy have elevated levels of unethical greed, they do not discuss either the suffering greed brings to the wealthy nor, and what really interests me, what can be done about it.
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In my view, the most serious threat to COCOM arises not from the greed of German machine tool manufacturers and their counterparts in other industries and other countries who are appear bent on making sales irrespective of the security consequences of doing so.
Wanting to live a life during which money is not an obstacle is not a form of greed.
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We pursue wealth while wearing faded jeans and buying old Shaker furniture to prove that we have not been consumed by greed and materialism.
Greed is not only good but can also do great good if, that is, there are clear incentives to tackle the big global challenges.
"It is not just the clawing greed of painstaking claims for such minor items as tampons, barbecue sets and bathrobes, but also the egregious way some have transferred allowances from one second property to another - enabling them to refurbish homes at public expense, then sell them for profit, " Lord Carey added.
Financial reform will not guard against every instance of greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street.
He argued that unfettered markets are not free markets, and that unregulated greed is neither good ethics nor good social policy.
Management is not at fault for that, human greed is.
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Visitors who read the background information on a computer screen at the foot of the case, or on the iPhone app developed for the show, or afterward in the succinct and lively exhibition catalog, will discover that persecution of the Templars was driven not by religious zeal but by royal greed.
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Trish was not a stupid girl, but out of greed, pride, and materialism she cheapened herself.
Black Friday is not merely a celebration of crony capitalism and greed.
However, as I read each one of them and try to put myself in their shoes, fundamentally, I just could not sympathize for what was the result of greed.
No government agency will prevent him from making those purchases, and his greed and self-interest will not lead to murder and mayhem in the streets of London or anywhere else.
Get rid of the causes of terrorism, oppression and stop powerful nations plundering weaker nations because of greed and globalisation - then there will not be any suicide bombings or terrorist attacks on civilians.
Massive greed and consequent massive human misery and suffering do not have to be accepted as a givens, unavoidable, intractable, irresolvable.
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But, as more and more American companies revise their earnings, it appears that greed and dodgy accounting have been the rule and not the exception in corporate America.
However, the sins attributed to capitalism corruption, fraud and greed, to name but three are not only pervasive in systems where the state controls production, but far more damaging and far less likely to be rectified.
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