Quotes About Greed

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Money is what makes a man act funny.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Os Hillman, in his book The Purposes of Money2, writes about four potholes on the road to prosperity: 1. Greed (1 Timothy 3:3) 2. Covetousness (Exodus 20:17; 1 Timothy 3:3) 3. Stinginess (Luke 6:29) 4. Self-reliance (Galatians 2:20)