Quotes About Greed

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Money There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.

Sexual desire and anger shall not seduce you, and the dog of greed shall depart.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.

The pirates understood what drove men

Companies were offering bribes to expand faster internationally, investors were scamming their clients, oil companies were funding warlords, manufacturers were skirting environmental regulations, all to make ever more money, yet no one from those groups were seemingly untouchable, protected by power and status and connections, and some were not.

Seemed like no matter how much money people had, they were desperate to have more, desperate to look good compared to everyone else. Why bother to impress when all anyone else cared about was how impressive THEY were?

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.

The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.