Quotes About Greed

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

If you lose your house and your life savings to a broker, you'd probably throw them in the same category as the worst gangsters in history. Everybody's definition of carnage and evil is different.

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.

Greed is the worst thing.

We have elected officials who say they're going to run for office to serve the people. But in reality, they legislate themselves into wealth. They go into office, and after one, two terms, they're worth millions upon millions of dollars, and that has to stop.

What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.

I've made a ton of money but I don't have as much as I'd like.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

What's interesting to 'Vikings' the series is that Horik is so blind in his greed and his desire for revenge that he can't hear reason, and he's probably so insecure about Ragnar that he won't take his advice. And straight up, honestly, if you ever have to say to someone, 'Hey, remember, I'm the king?' It's too late, and you've lost your authority.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.

Why is there no cure for cancer? Because the medical industry doesn't want one! And the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want one! Because they would lose too much money!

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.