Quotes About Greed

I know that money speaks more loudly than need.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

In a free market and in the absence of planning, developers will flatten every hillside, fill every canyon, obliterate every endangered species, and pave over every wetland they think they can make a buck on.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.