Quotes About Greed

No more doing things for nothing, Fernandito. Welcome to capitalism.' 'Don't they say that's really bad?' 'Worse. And you're going to love it.

Los codiciosos nunca saben cuándo ha llegado el momento de dejar de abusar de su posición y fuerzan las cosas hasta sacarlas de quicio. Por eso, tarde o temprano, caen

A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario.

Jaloezie is de religie van de middelmatigen. Het sterkt ze, het beantwoordt aan de onrust die vanbinnen aan ze knaagt en uiteindelijk verteert het hun ziel, terwijl het ze toestaat hun eigen kleinzieligheid en hebzucht te rechtvaardigen totdat ze denken dat het deugden zijn.

El dinero es como cualquier otro virus: una vez pudre el alma del que lo alberga, parte en busca de sangre fresca.

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. In

Everyone had helped themselves to something with the exception of Fred, who had helped himself to everything.

You mean like money?

But listen! Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.' Jake

She hated herself, and had become a loafer and a big no-good who hung around the summer kitchen: dirty and greedy and mean and sad.

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for anything and she was soft.

Don't need no more of this world's goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.

Don't ever let anyone tell you should be happy with what you have. There's always more, and there's no reason you shouldn't have it all.

It appears that from time immemorial, stark greed, the desire for wealth, has overridden all humane considerations. Greed has served as a kind of anesthesia, deadening humane sentiments and breaking the bonds of affection that relates man to man.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

I just count money, that's all I do. I count my millions.

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

whether it is food, sensual pleasures, money, a relationship, social status, or success. But so long as we have the energy of craving in us, we're never satisfied with what we have and with who we are right now, and true happiness is not possible.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....

Some folks want their luck buttered.

No empezamos a codiciar cosas imaginarias. La codicia es un pecado muy real: se empieza a codiciar cosas tangibles, se empieza con lo que se ve todos los días...

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.