Quotes About Greed

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

It's only money, honey.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Every era has its cartoon rich guys, but most of them are actual cartoons - Daddy Warbucks, Scrooge McDuck, C. Montgomery Burns.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

We're constantly having to go head-to-head with the Bernie Madoffs of the world who just want more and more money.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

The most powerful thing billionaires have isn't their voice. It's earth-shattering, continent-moving, war-starting amounts of money.

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.

Everyone wants more money, but if the motivation is money it's not going to work, if that's the only thing you want.

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

The Million Dollar Man was to professional wrestling what Ebenezer Scrooge is to Christmas. He was like a rich bully. He bullied everybody with his money, and his motto was 'Everybody's got a price.'

40 In short, the era of corporate greed and the presumably ignorant and helpless consumer saw dramatic improvements in safety, before the anointed came to the rescue.

Blaming economic crises on "greed" is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn't crash if it wasn't for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining why a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about "greed," which is constant like gravity.

The cause of all this was the pursuit of power driven by greed and ambition, leading in turn to the passions of the party rivalries thus established. The dominant men on each side in the various cities employed fine-sounding terms, claiming espousal either of democratic rights for all or of a conservative aristocracy, but the public whose interests they professed to serve were in fact their ultimate prize

But the right won't tell us that, because to put the blame where it belongs, on deregulation rather than regulation, on greedy companies and individuals who are of means, rather than poor black and brown people, would hardly serve the right's goal; namely, the manipulation of our racial anxiety and resentments into a potent political weapon.

Envious because I have a heart Gluttonous because I have a heart Greedy because I have a heart Prideful because I have a heart Slothful because I have a heart Wrathful because I have a heart Beacuse I have a heart I lust for all that you are.

War is the ultimate criminal act, an armed robbery writ large. And it's always about greed. It's always a nation that wants something another nation has. And you defeat that nation by recognizing what it wants and denying it to them.

It's easier to robe the poor.

Worldwide, the mania for consumer goods has created a deadly culture of overwork.