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“Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.”

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.”

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Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.”

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Author:Craig Newmark