Sentences with phrase «driven by greed»

Booms are driven by strong demand and constrained supply, whereas bubbles are driven by greed and extreme leverage.

Such things are not acts of love, but of ignorance perhaps or ignorance driven by greed.

For the consensus scientists to open this can - of - worms would be the death knell of the AGW hypothesis - scientists driven by greed and the limelight do not willingly eviscerate the golden ox that has produced multi-billions for research grants and scientific studies.

I'm sure the 20m or so that Stalin murdered would not agree that he was much of an egalitarian, nor were the Tasmanian settlers or the English colonialists, but they were driven by greed, contempt of the natives and self - interest much as you say.

The McCall brothers face a renegade Apache Chief, a greedy Mexican bandit, and a vindictive Colonel, all driven by greed with moral disregard.

Or is Nintendo so obsessed with money and driven by greed they want everyone to own about fifty copies of every NES era game under the sun?

Of course, that impression has, to some extent, been created by a few industry members who are largely driven by greed.

They were driven by greed in my opinion rather than the welfare of a lost or abused pet.

RESCUE IS DRIVEN BY GREED.

Guy Spier's publisher describes his book as revealing «his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the highest bidder.»

When thinking about finance, it always is legitimate to start with the premise that banks are driven by greed and that they will seek to squeeze as much out of us as they can.

The problem with publishing today, though, is that its driven by greed, and that's driving debut writers to self - publish rather than risk getting rejected because a) they didn't walk into the toilet stall of their favorite author and politely ask for a blurb, or b) they discovered they'd rather spend what free time they have writing, and not marketing or frequenting social venues to make connections that may or may not pan out.

Traditional publishers have tried to do the same with ebooks — but the 21st century reader knows that those prices are simply driven by greed.

We live in a society driven by greed, jealousy, and the constant desire to be the biggest and the best.

It's part melodrama, part morality play and part thriller, more Dorian Gray as Bram Stoker and infused with a heady alchemic brew of ancient science, supernatural shadows, mutant organisms, demented villains driven by a greed for youth and one man's struggle for his soul.

Driven by greed, desperation, and family pride, their crime spree continues up and down the desert terrain of west Texas.

The judge also noted that Sampson — a now - disbarred attorney — was driven by greed, even though he and his wife earned hefty salaries.

Deputy leader Tom Watson will accuse gambling companies of deliberately targeting vulnerable people «driven by greed» in a speech at Labour's conference.

Tom Watson will outline plans to force bookmakers «driven by greed» to pay a new levy to help fund NHS treatment of problem gamblers.

etc Every single word you have written nails this evolutionary, natural process ALL mothers and babies go through, and how modern society (driven by greed) is constantly throwing product after product in our faces convincing us we need to buy all this shit for a smoother motherhood journey.....

I also help people with nutritional issues concerning fertility, and often fertility issues from a purely physical point of view, have to do with the bastardization of nutrition through industrialization and over processing of the food supply driven by greed.

Would I be right in guessing the meaning you want to convey is that pastors / the church are often driven by greed and that giving financially to the church doesn't necessarily result in attending to the needs of the vulnerable?

But, if the Netscape era was driven by greed, it was — with a hat - tip to Gordon Gekko — a good greed.

Not exact matches

Investors are driven by two emotions: fear and greed.

«Despite the comfortable academic consensus of market efficiency, financial markets will never be efficient because markets are, and will always be, driven by human emotions: greed and fear» Seth Klarman

These performance spreads are driven by valuations, expectations, and often simply greed and fear being played out on an industry level.

It is passing strange that the same people who describe ours as a society driven by selfishness and greed are, at the same time, so insouciant about giving people permission to kill others whom they find burdensome.

The second is consumer capitalism, the intricate socio - economic system that taps the human drives of individual gain and greed, rewarding incentive and encouraging participation in the system by the prospect of increased consumption of pleasurable goods or services and access to otherwise restricted activities.

Lust is driven by insatiable greed, love is driven by respect, honor and courage.

The main point of all my writing on this subject has been to raise our sights above what Pope John Paul II called «economism» — a view of economies driven solely by a materialist, economic understanding of self - interest, the profit motive, cupidity, and greed, and a denial of all the nobler human aspirations.

Unless the self knows itself, and unless it loves something more than the world and itself, the self will, to be sure, rule the world, but it will itself be governed and driven by the spiritual hunger we call greed, the desire to possess and enjoy infinite abundance.

This guy is the Anna Nicloe Smith of conservatism — completely devoid of talent, driven only by greed, and famous for absolutely nothing beyond making a foolish spectacle of himself.

Beyond that our main concern must be to see that man, whose folly drove him from the Garden of Eden, does not commit the blasphemous act of destroying, whether in fear or in anger or in greed, the great and lovely world in which, even in his fallen state, he has been permitted by the grace of God to live.

The statements made loosely by my friends in Dakar about the re-negotiation of taxi prices fit with the notion of the individual's (in this case the taxi man) actions as greed - driven: He is already receiving a salary for his work and therefore should not haggle and re-haggle for «extra» money, regardless of how inadequately paid he is.

Look behind the salads, sausage rolls and bite - size pizzas and it turns out that buffets are a microcosm of greed, sexual politics and altruism — a place where our food choices are driven by factors we're often unaware of.

One speaker at the conference said the elevator would be driven by those most prosaic of human motivations, greed and the opportunities to make money.

Healy and Embry are excellently cast as two friends driven to desperation and fueled by greed.

Actors who portrayed men driven by desperation, greed, hate and opportunism received Academy Award nominations for best supporting actor Thursday in an intense spectrum of films that ranged from exposing Wall Street's financial sins to the battle...

He is also driven by money, greed, power and the need to take advantage of the weak.

Indeed, director / co - writer / star Jay Chandrasekhar provides an intriguingly astute observation on the loss of innocence and masculine silliness in a world driven by fear, corruption, greed, depravity and financial insecurity.

The CRL asserts that the recent foreclosure crisis was caused not by low income borrowers, but instead by the greed driven actions and decision making by certain mortgage lenders and brokers; it notes that proposals for raising the minimum credit score requirement and charging higher mortgage insurance premiums up front and annually will obstruct the path to buying a home for some.

The fears, dreams and greed surrounding gold results in speculation — driven by what people think it could be worth.

The market right now is driven by fear and greed, and the old rules don't apply.

The lessons we have learned from the previous cycles are that over the short - term valuations tend to be driven by supply / demand and fear / greed.

The market is driven by fear and greed, i.e good news at the top, sell and bad news at the bottom, buy.

Fear and greed (fed by the «noise» of numerous opinions) drive untimely buys and sells.

Driven largely by greed, mortgage lenders began offering loans to this large and untapped pool of buyers.

But no matter how rational & persuasive they may sound, it's mostly driven by fear & greed as they worry about their popularity, their bonuses & their jobs.

And in turn, your reaction (no matter how you agree, or disagree), is mostly driven by fear & greed too... as you worry about possibly exhilarating gains & gut - wrenching losses in your portfolio.

I began thinking of large corporations as bloated whales, driven by arrogance and greed, as they systematically rolled over working moms and pops.