Quotes About Greed

Because, like so many of them, he held no beloved idea or philosophy as tightly as his money purse. Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light

no wiser than those pigs are worldly men who compete, and grudge, and struggle with each other, which shall get most money, most fame, most power over their fellow-men.

Some in clandestine companies combine; Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line; With air and empty names beguile the town, And raise new credits first, then cry 'em down; Divide the empty nothing into shares, And set the crowd together by the ears. – Defoe

There's always some idiot who thinks that after the revolution they'll be the one sitting on top of the hill of corpses, dining on caviar served out of a bowl made of a chromed baby's skull.

money is a symptom of poverty, after all, and Manfred never has to pay for anything.

You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there'll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers.

The knife-shaped thing sticking out of his throat is drinking greedily; one glance tells Johnny that the cop's beyond help. There's always a cost for using such occult weapons, and Johnny will pay it later, of that he is sure; but for now he's simply relieved to still be alive.

Changing the pictures on the wall from greed, anger, and ignorance into ideals (that we should not be greedy, angry, or ignorant) improves the decoration, perhaps—but leaves us without freedom.

I have become so disgusted with the pharmaceutical industry in this country

But the eye is very greedy and will steal a look at something its owner has no wish to see.

Creativity isn't the only way we strive to matter and gain power, but it's the most functional, sensible way. It doesn't require greed or jealousy, envy or outright violence, all of which can be highly effective, if immensely damaging, methods for gaining power. But these don't reveal a fit brain. Creativity does. It is the most impressive way to earn the attention of others. And thankfully, over the long haul, it works;

Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people's ideas.

They have yet to grasp that the disenfranchised do not hate them for their values. They hate them because of their duplicity, greed, use of indiscriminate industrial violence, and hypocrisy.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

It's all about the money.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Money just draws flies.