Quotes About Greed

The value of money is a scam perpetuated by those who have it over those who don't.

But here's the thing--no matter how many possessions you have, you never feel secure. As soon as you get one thing, there is always something else you need.

That was the only thing Lydia cared about now—money: how much she could make, how much she could hold on to. Four marriages, a son, a grandson, and all she had to show for it were these cold little objects scattered around her pristine mansion.

As perhaps the Russians would tell us, 'When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

In every stock jobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. Apres moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.

No eunuch flatters his tyrant more shamefully or seeks by more infamous means to stimulate his jaded appetite, in order to gain some favor, than does the eunuch of industry, the entrepreneur, in order to acquire a few silver coins or to charm the gold from the purse of his dearly beloved neighbor.

Indudablemente, la voluntad del capitalista consiste en embolsarse lo más que pueda. Y lo que hay que hacer no es discurrir acerca de lo que quiere, sino investigar su poder, los límites de este poder y el carácter de estos límites.

the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.