Quotes About Greed

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. This is man.

I suddenly realized, money can't buy happiness. But it sure as shit can take it away.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money—only for wanting to keep your own money.

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Money fixes everything, even nature, if there is enough of it.

All this suffering,' I said, 'and nothing but greed and violence to build on when the war is over.' 'Have another soda-mint,' said Charles. I had one. Then I said, 'Why are we here? That's what I don't understand. Why be here at all when it all has to be so beastly?' 'I suppose we just came, like mould on cheese.' 'Then why do we want to be happy? Mould on cheese doesn't want to be happy.' ...

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los bienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.

Han visto cómo se enriquece el que detenta el poder?

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los vienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.

El tiempo, medido en dinero, es la droga más efectiva que existe. La dosificamos de forma cicatera y egoísta para dar la espalda a cualquier mínimo atisbo de sinceridad.

Los vendedores hurtan en los pesos y trucan las balanzas, los reyes inventan impuestos y los curas pecados por los que darles limosna.

Nowadays, our leaders prefer to search for the causes of crime and poverty in the actions or inaction of those at the very bottom of society. The obscene transfers of wealth over the past forty years from that bottom to a privileged few at the top--and from much of the Third World to financial elites in the West--are all excused as the natural evolution of the Market, when, in fact, they are products of unparalleled greed by those who shape and direct that Market.

I wanted them to realized that there is enough time, enough love, and certainly enough apple pie in life ... I believed that the cause of many of the world's ills could be directly connected to greed, and that I thought it was crucial that children learn from an early age that there is enough of what they need.

If money does not make you happy, give it back

Fates are woven not by gods, but by the choices of humans--their greed and jealousies, their loves and courage...Fate is but one moment the gods extend to us, a test for us, but it is the choices we make that take us to that fate, or away. And so I will forge my own life!

Das Lesen war weder Arbeit noch Hobby, es folgte keinem bestimmten Interesse. Lesen war ein Zustand, in dem die Zeit verstrich, weil sie nicht anders konnte, während Adas Verstand in Nahrung eingelegt wurde, so dass seine hektische Gier in ein gleichmäßiges Einsaugen und Verwerten überging.

You have to say it," he said. "If you feel it, then you have to say it. I'm a greedy bastard, and I want it all." She looked up at him, her eyes bright. "I love you.

I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.

What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.

A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.