Greed Quotes

If you always try to measure yourself withmoney... well, it's like counting backwards, the more youkeep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

We Are Always Scared of Wild Beasts, Yet We Are Unaware About The Wildest Beast Within Us Which Does More Harm Than The Ordinary One....

An abundance of money, alcohol, or power doesn't change you, it simply reveals who you truly are.

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.

Being comfortable with the lies can be catastrophic.

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.

There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves.

We are taught to be free from all vices of life. No greed, anger, lust, and attachment with any mundane things.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.

It is greed that makes us human as it could be for good or bad.

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

Greed:Your own lies make you sick.

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

There is only one right way to eat a steak - with greed in your heart and a smile on your face.

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Capitalism is a social system where the health and security of a nation are compromised for corporate gain.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.

Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.

I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.

With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble.

And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to swallow those lumpy pills of generousity. Be kind and be healthy

We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on.

Ambition strives. At first for goals, until it reaches them. Then for more, because it's insatiable.

Greed, corruption, violence, sin, deception all come from a lack of understanding that we’re all connected.

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.