Quotes About Greed

As a nation, we've gone pill crazy, but we've been shoved into that state by pharmaceutical companies looking to tap our wallets. They're the drug cartels of the new millennium, and they've made doctors the new pushers.

Organized crime is just the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

She had learned that evil had the fattest wallet and most chaste face of all.

I don't believe in the American dream anyway, becoming a billionaire and buying expensive cars.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

We are against crony capitalism.

When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.

Dhanam' is one of the interesting scripts that I came across. It centers around me.

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed.

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.

I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

The issue is not possession of riches, according to Saint Augustine, but the desire for them.

There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.

To hell with the rich, they make me sick.