Definition of Greed

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Definition of Greed
	Greed An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain. Related Definitions: An, As, Desire, Eager, Gain, Greed, Greediness, Longing, Of, Or

Greed Quotations

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Bill Gates

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Milton Friedman

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James A. Baldwin

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
Joe Biden

For greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Greed Translations

greed in French is gloutonnerie
greed in German is Habgier, Gier, Gier
greed in Latin is avaritia
greed in Spanish is avidez
greed in Swedish is snikenhet, glupskhet, girighet

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