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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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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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.
"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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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.
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.
After years of greed on Wall Street, investors may require ethical management not only because of their personal values but because the growth projections of their investment rely on it.
Greed, self-indulgence, and even treason are of course not new to the international banking and multi-national corporate worlds.
Thus, what began in August 2007 was not the failure of free markets but the result of bad government actions: Greed and recklessness always run rampant during a bubble.
In fact, most locals do not need persuading that the root of the problem is human encroachment rather than elephant greed.
He could not have foreseen that 130 years later, its story of swindling banks and corporate greed would hit a note with contemporary audiences.
This article not only makes a far less compelling argument for innovation, it makes a great case for protecting greed.
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Steve Jobs was not a man known for his public charity and many people think he was driven by selfishness and greed.
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