If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your PLANS and PURPOSES to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

The need for instant gratification is a component of greed.

Everyone likes to reminisce, but no one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

he who is greedy is always in want

Do not pay attention to what people say, only to what they do, and how much of their necks they are putting on the line.

I'm so tired of trying to say things to people and having them not listen. That's probably the reason why a lot of people think that I'm either depressed or sullen or shy because I just simply will not talk to you unless that I think that you're listening to me. I just simply won't. I can't.

Keep your eyes and ears wide open - and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision. Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood

On the surface, it may look like this is our true nature, because it is currently rampant throughout the world. But the reality is that greed is a conditioned habit that is easily mistaken for our true nature. The selfishness of greed is deeply rooted in the mind, but it is a pattern like any other — it can be observed and released. What was once widely understood as human nature — being greedy, fearful, and even hateful — is not our nature at all. These traits are human habits, conditioned behavior that was imprinted onto us by past generations and past experiences.