Quotes About Greed

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

Greed lessens what is gathered.

We risk all in being too greedy.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Avarice hoards itself poor; charity gives itself rich.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.