Quotes About Greed

I can't think of anybody among the greats who isn't constantly looking at themselves and feeling dissatisfied. You're greedy in this business: always wanting to prove you can do more. I don't ever remember a time when I've said, My God, I've cracked it - this is lovely.

I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

Greedy actors should never be satisfied.

I've always been greedy. I think every actor is greedy for good parts and stories, and it should be that way.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

Even though most of us love, love, love it when we're flush with cash, and we fantasize about what we'd do with more of it, we'd feel gross saying 'I love money' out loud.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

I have more guns than I need and not as many as I want.

Really, I've had enough of fame. Now I just want money.

Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.

Now nothing is happening and nothing will ever happen again. Money has taken away everything.

Jeff Park paused, as if to let that figure register, but Barry had heard it all before. Prices went up. Shareholders profited. What part of capitalism didn't Jeff Park understand?

T]here may be no more depressing place on the planet than the floor of a casino.

A country's finances, natural resources, and production capacities are often arbitrarily plundered by dictators and used to support the dictators' will.

I take his gold. I'm hated for that by men who would grovel for it, were it offered to them." Myt-ser

You hated it—hated its nasty ugly ways, its noise and smoke and most of all its shaggy shitty itch for gelt, gelt for this and gelt for that until a man couldn't fart without paying

earn what you can since everything's for sale

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both. From Chaucer's The Knight's Tale

La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios.

What difference is there betwixt an idolater and an avaricious man, but that the idolater has, perhaps, one or two idols, whereas the avaricious man has many?

The youngest of the three, who went to the town, turned over full oft in his mind the beauty of those gold coins, new and bright. "O Lord," said he, "if only it were so that I might have to myself all this treasure alone, there is no man who lives under the Throne of God who would be as merry as I!" And, at last, the Devil, our enemy, put into his thoughts that he should buy poison, with which he might slay his fellows two.

Now let us touch on the vice of Flattery, which comes not gladly from the heart, but from fear or greed. Flattery is generally insincere praise. Flatterers be the Devil's nurses, who nourish his children with the milk of adulation.

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both.

Know your product. Know your customer. And never, ever, underestimate the power of greed.