Sentences with phrase «when greed»

It's pretty embarrassing to think that I fell for it, but it goes to show how weak we can all be when greed dangles its carrot.

They make terrible investments when their greed and desire to conform overwhelm considered analysis.

Intuitively, people know that they need to match assets and liabilities, but they sometimes forget that when greed or fear emerge.

When greed dominates investor thinking, investors focus on profits they can make, and they downplay their fear of loss.

While the subprime mortgage crisis remains the epitome of what occurs when greed and corruption go unchecked, a growing number of experts and observers are warning that a new economic scandal is taking shape in the United States.

When greed is involved, when the issue is extremely contentious, or when passion about the issue is high, manipulation of the facts and bad science are even more likely.

But everything changes when greed, fame and murder threaten to destroy them and the place that ties them together.

When greed and money grubbing are all that drive a person, they join the GOP.

It means nothing when preachers pontificate about greed — when greed is one of the cornerstones of most churches.

Not exact matches

Or you could think of it as a version of the greater fool theory — you want to be sure there's at least one bigger sucker than you willing to buy your goodies when you finally get over your growing greed and decide that it's time to go.

When he was up for parole, he struck a penitent note, telling the New York State parole panel, «It was greed, pure and simple.»

But that won't prevent greed - crazed brokers and bankers from reacting to that old Wall Street maxim: «when the ducks are quacking, you better find something to feed them» (or your competition surely will).

Heath points out that, when asked about what motivates wrongdoing, most people say it has a lot to do with greed, or with other deep character flaws.

So, when the markets are going up month after month without any sign of slowing down, our Cheshire cat grin of greed is secretly getting larger as we see our statements grow every month.

«The leader has to recognize when negative emotions like frustration, impatience, anger, lack of self - confidence, jealousy, greed start to influence his thought processes,» writes the Dalai Lama and van den Muyzenberg in the The Leader's Way.

On greed and fear: «We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.»

When you have these kinds of price hikes, which in some cases I believe are just simply criminal and they are done because of greed, it's like putting a gun to somebody's head and saying you need to pay me this very high price for the drug or you die.

When we lose that awareness, to ambition or greed, the results can be ugly.»

In 1987's Wall Street, when Gordon Gekko tells the shareholders of Teldar Paper that «greed, for lack of a better word, is good,» he wears a double - breasted suit.

He added that he's seen both businesses and individuals take big risks out of greed when they should have held back.

It is impressive what gold can do when it is freed from the chains of greed, looting, and official corruption.

Over the past two years, the market has displayed equal parts greed (when it comes to Disney's booming movie business) and fear (over cord - cutters putting pressure on ESPN's business model).

We're happy to help make the most of their greed by taking up to 50 % cash deposits and charging them interest when they hedge.

Mr Miles highlighted the point that investors usually fall prey to panic selling when the market dips and succumb to «greed» when sentiments turn bullish, and more often than not if such behaviour persists, the investor would eventually end up in a state of pauperism.

Their behavior will only change when jealousy and greed kick in.

In a world defined by political turbulence, a time when U.S. markets appear increasingly frothy, when the Fed has a declared intention to unwind QE, the stability appears unnatural — a menacing codependence between financial engineering and greed.

Traders often make mistakes out of fear of a potential loss or when because of greed outstay in the position for a few dollars on top.

When you follow an objective trading plan, you will find that your mind is free of fear, greed, hope and regret (four primary emotions that drive the stock market), and will be more likely to make sound trading decisions.

These are codes that can be written to open and close trades when specific conditions occur in the market, removing human emotion from trading based on psychological factors such as greed and fear.

The Evangelical's call GREED a «Blessing» when people build their own Kingdoms on Earth, and horde riches they somehow have favor with «God».

People do bad things when they are motivated by greed.

Into the risk - averse worlds of corporate lawyers and bankers in the 1970s came a new generation of raiders, a mogul horde the likes of which had not been seen since the days when Jay Gould and other grandees of greed held sway.

I can tell you when I sat in the grass with Doug Pagitt in 1996 (I think) and he was dreaming of starting his church and the ideas and desire to be real and true and different... I believe the intention was authentic... then ego, greed, status, book deals, money and the inability to admit a flaw messed him up.

Andy Stanley, a prominent evangelical leader, said some in his congregation cheered when he launched a preaching series called «Recovery Road» to talk about politically touchy issues such as personal greed, the federal deficit and the sins of subprime loans.

In his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, issued in 1939, Pope Pius XI deplored the fact that «these most powerful means of publicity, which can be of great utility for instruction and education when directed by sound principles, are only too often used as an incentive to evil passions and greed for gain.»

Admittedly I have drawn attention to large - scale suffering, but the question is just as difficult to answer when we come to the hatred, lust, malice, greed, pride and selfishness which mar the national, social and family life of our own country.

When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.

Common sense is anything but common in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next generation.

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

Those who welcome with open arms people who commit greed, lust, thievery, etc. but cross their fingers and hide when approached by a homosexual.

Until the time when Man puts away violence, greed, selfishness, many Men will continue to percieve a YHVH - God, and He will be showing this aspect of Himself, as this Divine - Self - Expression will remain needful.

Similarly, when it comes to religion we seek out the secrets of the «tricks», the theological slight of hand, the play on people's ego and greed, the truth behind the mystery.

It's called GREED when you add in the Insurance companies then you know who's into it GREED.

«Can human nature which has been so long conditioned by the stimuli of capitalism,» asked the CENTURY, «discipline itself while still subject to the same stimuli, to the point of curtailing its greed for profits when profits are to be had?»

No one wants to take the whole thing down but to say some type of redistribution isn't necessary when you have a system that allows that type of greed to exist seems disingenuous at best,.

Christianity... and the Pope,,, are not against Capitalism, only the social ills that can result from unbridled greed... when money becomes a false god... or «the Precious» (Lord of the Rings).

Social workers promoting these causes will be given an honourable place in society, and respected when they do not contest the greed and injustice of the dominant.

Sometimes the devout lose out to selfishness or greed when they get a taste of power.

Do not be fooled when humans rule there will always be corruption, greed and no morality.

In times when politicians promise change to the world, followers of Jesus can offer true and lasting change, based not on the principles of power or greed, but on service and generosity.