Greed Quotes

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The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

You can never have too much money.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

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

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.