Avarice (n.) and waste are good management carried past its measure: within a certain latitude a bit more or less does not matter, then suddenly the quality changes.
Avarice (n.) takes the dead abstraction of wealth for ultimate reality and pursues its cold pleasure by depriving itself of every concrete satisfaction — and the more seriously held, the less comic and the more miserable.
Avarice (n.) and gluttony can be weighed against each other: the friend who would not spend as much on food was more avaricious than Castruccio was gluttonous.
Avarice (n.) leaves no minute for anything but one's own property; any skill that pays is learned fast, and anything that doesn't is laughed at.
Corporate greed (n.) is a misleading phrase, like "robber's greed": maximizing profit is simply what a corporation is, and its officers are legally bound to do it.
Corporate greed (n.) puts fewer chips in the same bag and hopes you blame the chips.
Corporate greed (n.) is hunger with a legal department.
Corporate greed (n.) runs on decisions each of which looked reasonable to the person making it.
Covetousness (n.) prefers to scheme at home than to act abroad: hardly a Roman would go to colonize Antium, so much readier were the commons to covet in the city than to realize it by leaving.
Covetousness (n.) reshapes the one who covets: as the coveted object is, so the coveter becomes.
Covetousness (n.) outweighs the probabilities hung on the other side of the reasoning, and it is easy to foresee which will win when money is the counterweight.
Covetousness (n.) to one man is not so to another — proof that the essences of complex ideas are made by men, not found in things.
Greediness (n.) is a diagnosis made in the third person.
Greediness (n.) is hated in a man only because we realize that nothing can be gained from him.