Short-term greedy people almost always lose much more than they win, certainly over the longer term.
Again, greedy people make greedy decisions- I want everything to try to spend another month on this spinning rock.
Too much money can be made by too few greedy people.
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On this view, these institutions are little more than con-tricks at the moment, built on the illusion that you can turn management into a science and dedicated to the unedifying goal of teaching greedy people how to satisfy their appetites.
Potentially Africa's most dynamic country, Nigeria has been strangled by bad and greedy rulers, its people sunk in poverty and cynicism.
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"People got greedy and held on to stocks, riding them too far, " says a limited partner who invests with many of the best-known venture firms.
It's not that people are more greedy now than they were 20 years ago.
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Government employees work for democratically elected officials representing the will of the people, not greedy miscreants exploiting them for personal profit.
Why should we wear a hair shirt for people just as greedy and selfish as so many critics portray the West to be?
El Chavo makes us laugh at miserable places, full of greedy, selfish, violent people, and also at the ones who are bullied by them.
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There is also a well-founded suspicion that light-fingered bureaucrats and greedy politicians, the very people who caused the crisis, should be held to account but won't be.
Similarly, Mr Kay expends too much energy knocking down another false target: the idea, attributed to free-marketeers, that people are utterly greedy in all parts of their lives.
That the problem with GM and Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) are those greedy unions.
If the leftists purge their old-timers, Mr Tusk might choose them in place of his tiresome and greedy current coalition ally, the agrarian People's Party.
People do not become more greedy, they become over-optimistic.
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BP's critics say it legitimises theft (right after Mr Khodorkovsky's sentence had been extended by another seven years) and bolsters the belief in the Kremlin that Western business people are really just as greedy and cynical as its own oligarchs: all that high-mindedness over corruption and property rights melts away whenever Russia dangles an oily profit in front of them.
You have had so much money, why did you let yourself get in a situation where people can criticize you for being greedy?
Instead of respect, the US is feared around the world because it has become a 'loose cannon' with greedy and 'power crazed' mentally unstable people at it's helm.
Because people are in need, and the greedy must serve the needy.
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The survey, conducted in January by advertising firm JWT (and recently shared with TechNewsDaily), didn't ask people outright if they were lustful or greedy, but rather what they do online.
The promise (made by lawyers to patients) of some major payout should the patient have some untoward effect of surgical and medical care (as offered by a greedy legal system in front of a jury of people who would rather be texting or working) has to end.
The people of Pennsylvania Avenue can be vain, greedy, downright nasty as well.
Trying to be greedy and capture follow-through in big size is only getting people hurt.
Many people consider him much too close to California's greedy unions for comfort, but he is sharp, politically protean and well known.
These days I see America drifting from the Christian faith, acting abroad as an arrogant, selfish, greedy nation, interested only in guns and dollars, not in people and their hopes and aspirations.
My belief here is that as people age they become more Republican, more cheap, more greedy, less tolerant, more nationalistic and more religious for the most part.
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Once upon a time in America before the greedy 1980s, the bubbly 1990s, and the busted 2000s when people talked about planning for retirement they did not say they were investing for it.
Mr. MAHTANI: That's right, the Ijaw are the dominant ethnic group in the Niger delta, and many Ijaw leaders and chiefs believe that, their people have been cheated out of Nigeria's oil by the greedy central government, by the greedy oil multinationals, as they term them.
Ask people why they hate the Tories and two words tend to recur greedy and mean.
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