Diogenes
Philosopher
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
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Greedy
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Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear."
Jack Gilbert
Poet
"Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them."
Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful."
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"We risk all in being too greedy."
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"Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good."
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"If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more."
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"There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy."
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"Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit."
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"Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful."
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"The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity."
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"I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it."
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"I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young."
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"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up."
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"I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy."
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"Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share."
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"Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy."
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"He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him."
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"To a greedy eating horse a short halter."
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