Greed Quotes

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

Greed has no boundaries

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

Today is much more an age of greed

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.