Quotes About Greed

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.

If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.

Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.

We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed - the greed for power and control over our lives and our economy.

There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic.

'The Big Short' is, among other things, a blistering, detailed indictment of the way Wall Street does business, and its particular villains are the investment banks.

These Wall Street types, they're not exactly the kind of people you want your children turning into. They're really not very smart. They're certainly not thoughtful or kind. They're often poorly-educated, mostly ignorant and always self-interested and greedy.

I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens.