It’s seen as a bunch of selfish greedy bastards that are just in it to make as much money as possible.
Whole Foods’ CEO on how business can be better than just “a bunch of selfish greedy bastards”|McKenna Moore|October 6, 2020|Fortune
It all depends on your management style and what you’re happy with and how greedy you really want to be.
‘We’re racing against the clock’: The CEO of the Serum Institute of India on his company’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign|Erika Fry|September 21, 2020|Fortune
When stocks take a beating, the pros often jump back in and buy on the cheap, adapting that Warren Buffett-ism of being “greedy when others are fearful.”
Buffett’s big bet on Japan sends global stocks higher|Bernhard Warner|August 31, 2020|Fortune
The answer may be that animals are greedy: they need a lot of oxygen to grow big and complicated.
Why Did It Take So Long For Complex Life To Evolve On Earth? Blame Oxygen.|Matthew R. Francis|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Only the greedy say that greed is good and there is no shaming of the shameless.
Too Big to Jail: Confessions of a Goldman Sachs Brat|Michael Daly|June 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But this soft and greedy subversive organelle is no match for the brilliance of our scientists!
The Fake Superbug Cure|Kent Sepkowitz|June 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure.
From Las Vegas to Georgia, the NRA Has Created a Monster|Cliff Schecter|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Silicon Valley tech firms tend to be every bit as cutthroat and greedy as any capitalist enterprise before it.
Silicon Valley’s Giants Are Just Gilded Age Tycoons in Techno-Utopian Clothes|Joel Kotkin|April 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His glance, long and greedy, betrayed how envious of me he was.
The Seven-Branched Candlestick|Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel
Her irritability had suddenly quite vanished, and her anxious, imploring eyes were fixed on him with greedy expectation.
War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy
You are greedy for fine food and clothes and a good time, as a wolf is greedy for its prey.
Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17)|Various
The Stranger ate absent-mindedly and ravenously, drinking his ale in greedy draughts.
Through Welsh Doorways|Jeannette Augustus Marks
The acres had come to him all his own, and now, before his death, every one of them would have gone bodily into that greedy maw.
Framley Parsonage|Anthony Trollope
British Dictionary definitions for greedy
greedy
/ (ˈɡriːdɪ) /
adjectivegreedierorgreediest
excessively desirous of food or wealth, esp in large amounts; voracious
(postpositive foll by for) eager (for)a man greedy for success
Derived forms of greedy
greedily, adverbgreediness, noun
Word Origin for greedy
Old English grǣdig; related to Old Norse grāthugr, Gothic grēdags hungry, Old High German grātac