Quotes About Greed

Esto te demuestra, Maurice, que la decencia sucumbe rápidamente ante la codicia.

Mientras los dueños del poder robaban sin escrúpulos, los ladrones de profesión o de necesidad apenas se atrevían a ejercer su oficio, porque el ojo de la policía estaba en todas partes.

Estados Unidos fue fundado por peregrinos, pioneros y modestos inmigrantes, con una ética de trabajo duro y valor ante la adversidad. El oro ha puesto en evidencia lo peor del carácter americano: la codicia y la violencia.»

The traders standing nearby, or really most anyone doing just well enough to pay for the services of people like him, needed to be reassured that those they were considering hiring were in a state of sufficient wretchedness that they could be paid as little as possible for their labor, and never succeed enough to pull themselves up from that state. Thus, the boss men reassured themselves of their own importance. Pull-down-and-keep-down syndrome was how Elimane thought of it.

It means zero to be against greed.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Ambition destroys its possessor.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Every man has his price.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?

He who is greedy is always in want.