Quotes About Greed

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Man, I really think I was just fascinated with money... and I always wanted it growing up. I always wanted money... Once I got upwards in age, the older I got, the more fascinated I got with money.

Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge--especially to women

Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.

Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Money was their God; work their religion.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

Fear will make you stingy.

Money is like fertiliser. When spread around, things grow; when it's hoarded, it stinks.

There is nothing as nervous as a highly overbought and slightly crazy stock market dominated by greedy small investors and day traders all out to squeeze a huge profit out of the present bull run.

If Congress continues to sit on its hands, and the drug companies continue to stash cash in their stockings, Americans will be forever bound in the Jacob Marley-like chains of high prices.

Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?

In early 2008, before the criminal greed of America's mortgage and investment bank industry nearly destroyed the world's economy, the balance sheet of the U.S. Federal Reserve stood at about $870 billion.

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated.

When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

The dictator has to keep the economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it.