Quotes About Greed

Barry was born clever enough at gaining a fortune, but incapable of keeping one. For the qualities and energies which lead a man to achieve the first are often the very cause of his ruin in the latter case.

L'Occidente mangia sulla terrazza e da basso il resto del mondo attende gli avanzi. [...] Ai ricchi di questi e altri tempo piace così - dice il diavolo roteando la forchetta - e le porte dell'inferno sono larghe abbastanza per qualsiasi pancia.

Si un banco o una compañía financiera eran dueños de las tierras, el enviado decía: el Banco, o la Compañía, necesita, quiere, insiste, debe recibir, como si el banco o la compañía fuera un monstruo con capacidad para pensar y sentir, que les hubiera atrapado. Ellos no asumían la responsabilidad por los bancos o las compañías porque eran hombres y esclavos, mientras que los bancos eran máquinas y amos, todo al mismo tiempo.

A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultivates the strength of mind to let them arise and pass without identifying with or acting upon them.

Just like the Spanish on Earth in pursuit of gold, the twenty-second-century conquistadors of RDA, are here in pursuit of unobtainium, and have come face to face with hunter-gatherers of the forest

One man asked another on the death of a mutual friend, How much did he leave? His friend responded, He left it all.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

They say a fool and his gold are soon parted, but they ought to say too that those who refuse ever to be parted from gold are the greatest fools of all.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn't pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful for ever.

We don't own things. Things own us.

We all have a purpose, or calling. If it's greed, hence, lies the wrong path.

A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.

Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves.

Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.

Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.