The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
ConfuciusTags: capitalism consumerism greed materialism profit
The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”
(Analects 2.12)
Tags: capitalism greed honor dignity
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”
(Analects 4.16)
Tags: capitalism consumerism greed china
The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”
(Analects 4.9)
Tags: capitalism virtue consumerism simplicity greed materialism china
The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them.
“If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it.”
(Analects 4.5)
Tags: capitalism virtue simplicity greed
The best client is a scared millionaire.
H.L. MenckenTags: greed
Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.
John Charles ChasteenTags: freedom greed economics-philosophy
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.
Dorothy L. SayersI will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
Warren BuffettTags: fear rich greed wall-street
Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.
Sonia RumziTags: politics evil greed complacency complacent
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