If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. John Rockefeller

• purpose
• wealth
• goals
• greed

So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it. Calvin Coolidge

• wealth
• greed

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke

• wealth
• greed

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. Seneca

• greed
• contentment
• money

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live. Ravi Zacharias

• greed

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Thinking that what's good for you is good for the wider civilization, and rationalizing foolish or evil conduct, based on your subconscious tendency to serve yourself, is a terrible way to think. Charlie Munger

• fairness
• honor
• greed

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool. Charlie Munger

• greed

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives. Charlie Munger

• desire
• greed

Self-preservation and self-development are common aspirations among all people. And if everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing. But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others. This is no rash accusation. Nor does it come from a gloomy and uncharitable spirit. The annals of history bear witness to the truth of it: the incessant wars, mass migrations, religious persecutions, universal slavery, dishonesty in commerce, and monopolies. This fatal desire has its origin in the very nature of man - in that primitive, universal, and insuppressible instinct that impels him to satisfy his desires with the least possible pain. Frederic Bastiat

• greed

Time and again, the ethics of men and women have proven no match for a lucrative incentive structure. Michael Burry

• morals
• greed

Little boys fight, and men take each other's money. Lawton Grantham

• children
• greed

People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony. Ray Dalio

• greed

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