Greed Quotes

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.

Greed and Lust never say, "Enough!

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.

Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!In all honesty, hate has no fate. But greed does it needs money, its faith.

Do not create opportunities for beasts and evils to take charge of your life.

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin, and the coin tossedinto the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

Each planet has a story to tell.With Mars it was nuclear aniallation.With Venus it was industrial madness.With Earth? I guess that greed will be the answer.

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

Don't rush your legs to feed your greed. They will rush to judge you as the greedy one.

It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.

Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.

The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Socialism is politicized envy.

Greed runs in all men...

Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.

...an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people's home. ~ Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

Ambition's ambition is immortality. To create an eternal legacy.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

Ambition is greed without makeup.

Greed is like a dark side of every man, and you could not see it from the appearance of a man, but in the inside the greedy beast already dominating you.

In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.

Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life.

Always somewhere there is fire or smoke, insistent reminders of the greed consuming the world

After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.

There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.

Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?