Quotes About Greed

For thirty pence he did my death devise,Who at three hundred did the ointment prize.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose

there are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Thiel concluded that "greed is far preferable to envy: It is less destructive (I'd rather live in a society where people don't share than in one where they try to take what belongs to everybody else) and it is more honest.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.

He was not born wealthy. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.

Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked?

When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh and kill each other for his eyes.

Littlefinger laughed aloud. "With gold and boys and promises, of course. Ser Lyn is a man of simple tastes, my sweetling. All he likes is gold and boys and killing.

He'd holler starvation in a pie shop.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

A whining voice at the back of my mind insisted that while the greedy ocean rose, year by year, the real catastrophe was yet to come. Behind that again was the cowardly whisper of humanity in all ages, 'Please, not in my time.

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

Thus captain and crew enjoyed a life style above their means, one they were anxious to perpetuate.

Good morning war. Good morning money.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!