The most patient receive the most beneficial gifts from life. I did not hear that the holders were called greedy, it seems to me that they say because of envy that they had enough patience.
This is true in most aspect of your life, most people are short term thinkers and they do not think throughly the consequence of their actions, this is best exemplified by all of those people that bought bitcoin when the market was at the top thinking only on the easy money they will make and as soon as things did not go according to their expectations they did not knew what to do, while those that bought bitcoin for cheap and were thinking about the long term could take any decision they wanted and get profits in the process thanks to their long term thinking.
It is not everyone that takes profit shortly are greedy people or shallow thinkers, infact to me, they are smart players and that was how those types of people were able to outsmart some of us when bitcoin was growing high in the last Bull run.The moment their coin increased to a satisfactory level, they all sold their coin while some of us were too greedy and waiting for bitcoin to make us money that we ought to make in 10 years in a day, and that is why you see some of us until now still regretting when we ought to before the market crashed.
It was this same greed that made me lose $50000 in the last altcoins ATH, when I didn’t take profit when I was supposed to, waiting for it to turn to millions for me, but now, where are those coins, they have all turned zero value now. We just have to apply smartness in everything.