Quotes About Greed

People who buy lottery tickets in vast amounts show themselves willing to pay much more than expected value for very small chances to win a large prize.

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Behind every fortune lies a great crime," said Ramirez. "Honoré de Balzac

You know the old Russian proverb, Allon. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine.

If a man receives thirteen coins, he will hanker after sixteen, and possessing them he considers life unbearable unless he now earns forty. Nature, it might be observed, imposes strict boundaries on a person's height and age span, so that in even the most extreme instances no one can rise or fall too far or too short from the rest, whereas no such boundary inhibits money.

There will always be a way getting involved to make profit at everybodys expense.

L?comia de averi, nedreptatea social?, r?azboiul, toate acestea sunt manifest?ri ale r?ului din lumea noastr?.

David hit a point in his life when he knew that he had to get his mind back on the things of God. Revenge, discouragement, lust, greed—none of the ugly emotions of life were going to get him through his trials. Only God could do that. So that's where he needed to refocus his mind and life.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Después de todo, está bien tener dinero mientras el dinero no le tenga a usted.

In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others.

The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.

To fatten a pig, a farmer will feed him well. The pig must think his life a paradise, never knowing he gorges himself so that he will be fatter for the knife later on.

Evil is contagious, Mr. Mason, and it feeds on greed and power.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is "Greed.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

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

six billion hungry and greedy individuals,

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

Warren Buffett likes to say, "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

You ain't never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there's money in that dick. Lots of money.