Greed Quotes

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

Much wants more and loses all.

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

having too much is never enough.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

It means zero to be against greed.

I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street.

Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person.

Greed can overtake smart.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea -- a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

the truly covetous have never enough!

I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition - it would really be the world of kindness .

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.