The owners' motivation is pure greed: you don't have to share revenue with teams that no longer exist.
When it comes to crime, investigators say, one of the most common motives is pure greed, the desire to get something for nothing.
Pappy's eyes were bright, and his smile was pure greed.
"I think a lot of it is pure greed."
So they did, in what seemed to be - and may, in fact, have been - an act of pure greed.
It's just pure greed in a lot of cases, all of this.
To bad that pure unadultered greed becomes the top story for the best baseball players.
The market is driven by greed, pure and simple!
The best ones are the ones who do it for pure greed.
You shouldn't view price moves as pure greed by speculators.