Quotes About Greed

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.

If I was happy with three trophies, then suddenly I had to have four. If I was happy with four, then I had to have five.

The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.

that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.