Quotes About Greed

Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

knowing you're smarter than somebody and you can beat them. And that, in our case, it was gonna make us some money.

Yes, some people are so impoverished all they have is money.

holding tight / to their pocketbooks / at the pearly gates / just in case.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

A generous person is close to Allah, close to Paradise, close to people, and far from Hell. However, a miserly person is far from Allah, far from Paradise, far from people, but close to Hell. Allah loves more an ignorant man who is generous than a worshipper who is miserly. (Tirmidhi.) We

It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

Arthur smacked the book closed and announced to the empty room, 'Better a moneygrubber than a philandering scoundrel.' But somehow the statement didn't' make him feel better. A philanderer was motivated by lust. And a moneygrubber was, too.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.

I also wonder about gold fever, why it make some men crazy and others wise. Such as Sam, my father, and Captain clinkingbeard They suffered heartbreak and loss just as Jesse Blue had, but they didn't become thieves or liars. Why? I asked papa. What makes the difference? His eyes were gentle when he looked at me. "It seems that true character of often isn't revealed until a person is faced with temptation".

If we have demonstrated such greed at the table of the body, imagine how we would have behaved at the table of spiritual things, if we had felt ourselves attracted by it.

Quel povero diavolo è stato derubato di quattro monete d'oro: pigliatelo dunque e mettetelo subito in prigione.

The lesson of history, then, is that even as institutions and policy makers improve, there will always be a temptation to stretch the limits. Just as an individual can go bankrupt no matter how rich she starts out, a financial system can collapse under the pressure of greed, politics, and profits no matter how well regulated it seems to be.

Money may not be everything, but it's a pretty good cure for poverty.

Money is just dirty paper with dead presidents' pictures on it.

Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

Money might be the root of all evil, but two million in stolen cash was mainly a hernia risk.

Corporations may be ruthless at times, but rarely as ruthless as poverty is.

Money is not the root of all evil, but it is popular because people believe it is.

Gluttony kills more then the sword.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

The eye is bigger than the belly.