Re: America's Disease - is - Greed

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Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:24:43 GMT

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:40:16 -0500, "Jim Blair" <jeb@wisc.edu> wrote:

>"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
>news:2pjnjeFkatb3U1@uni-berlin.de...
>>
>> Socialism is a Mental Disease wrote:
>>
>> > Everybody is greedy, poor and rich alike. The difference is that the
>> > rich are good at it while the poor are not.
>> >
>> > By the way, greed is what has made this country what it is today, the
>> > most powerful and richest in the world. As such, we need more greed,
>> > not less.
>>
>> Greed is good - Gordon Gekko.
>
>No, greed is BAD. Ambition is GOOD. What is the difference?
>
>If YOU want more you are greedy. But if I want more I am ambitious .

Ambition is trying to get more. Greed is trying to get more than you
deserve.

-- Roy L

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