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Drama2 quotes
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind. — Gordon Gekko · 1987Lesson number one: don't underestimate the other guy's greed! — Frank Lopez · 1983Drama (film)2 quotes
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind. — Gordon Gekko · 1987Lesson number one: don't underestimate the other guy's greed! — Frank Lopez · 1983Religious literature2 quotes
The love of money is the root of all evil. — 1st Timothy 6:10 · 64He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. — Ecclesiastes 5:10 · 931 BCCommencement address1 quote
Greed is all right... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. — Ivan F. Boesky · 1986Crime1 quote
Lesson number one: don't underestimate the other guy's greed! — Frank Lopez · 1983Crime (film)1 quote
Lesson number one: don't underestimate the other guy's greed! — Frank Lopez · 1983Epic poem1 quote
To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold! — Virgil · 19 BCNewspaper1 quote
Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. — Warren Buffett · 2008Political literature1 quote
I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835Scientific literature1 quote
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. — William Osler · 1904