Quotes About Greed

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.