The difference between short-term greedy and long-term greedy types undoubtedly was evidenced in the February 29 plunge in gold and silver prices.
There are those who are short-term greedy and those that are long-term greedy.
Again, greedy people make greedy decisions- I want everything to try to spend another month on this spinning rock.
Not so they can please their own greedy self-interests, but so they can compete against each other in trying to please us.
Thus despite the smaller paycheck, the non-greedy CEO would return less value to shareholders.
Within it they are admired and feared, and viewed variously as powerful, greedy and sharp-elbowed.
This made us feel a little greedy and high-maintenance. (Hilton says it is planning to tweak the app to allow guests to make multiple requests at once.) Maybe Conrad read our avaricious mind, because 10 minutes later, an employee arrived bearing two dental kits, two pairs of slippers, two robes and a toiletry kit (with shampoo, conditioner, lotion and soaps) from Shanghai Tang, a luxury Chinese retailer.
As part of its "long-term greedy" mantra, Goldman forged ties at the highest levels as ex-chairman Paulson made dozens of visits to the country.
The substance is pure pulp--crooked cops, greedy mobsters, seductive dames, shiny cars--but the style is delicately ironic.
But the tragedy is not that dishonest borrowers and brokers signed off on liar-loans, greedy bankers packaged time bombs, yield hungry speculators bet on AAA-rated trash or that pandering politicians let taxpayers guarantee mortgages in the first place.
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The campaign is underpinned by a 27-minute film, When Mitt Romney Came to Town, that portrays Mr Romney as a greedy corporate raider whose hyper-capitalist business practices ruined American lives.
Trying to be greedy and capture follow-through in big size is only getting people hurt.
Obviously the short-term greedy rushed back into stocks not wanting to miss this big rally.
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Of the top guys whom I know personally, I would say almost all are long-term greedy.
On the other hand, most long-term greedy investors looked, listened and probably did nothing.
Short-term greedy people almost always lose much more than they win, certainly over the longer term.
Genetically driven to grow and defined by an ethos insiders call "long-term greedy, " this firm wants more.
That kind of fear and "long-term greedy" thinking has made Goldman Sachs a survivor since the days of the first telephone.
Short-term greedy types are solely interested in making as much money as possible right now and are likely willing to cut corners.
Meanwhile, in the face of a big down move in price, as what usually happens, many short-term greedy types got scared and sold.
Long-term greedy means being a professional, which includes doing your homework, keeping your word, cleaning up messes, honoring relationships with clients and employees.
Part of the answer is a political class greedy to push home-ownership rates to historic highs -- from 64% in 1994 to 69% in 2004.
Those triumphs led Zhang to abandon his doctorate plans and, with Sun, co-found startup Greedy Intelligence.
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The Kremlin shed no tears for Mr Bakiyev, whom it saw as two-faced and greedy.
That's an open invitation for fishing expeditions for greedy trial lawyers, publicity-hungry pols, ambitious prosecutors and envious bureaucrats.
In several cases it is hard to know whether these CEOs are less "greedy" or more shareholder-friendly than their American counterparts, because their companies won't provide the information needed to know.
People do not become more greedy, they become over-optimistic.
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