Quotes About Greed

You don't celebrate your achievements because you always want more.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state.

You can't own something unless you can swallow it

It led to the unrelenting hunger of hearts, to lustful, searching eyes, and creeping, confident hands, to souls who believed that what they could touch they could own.

They say 74% of everything you're learning in college is a bunch of bullshit you'll never need 83.4% of everything you've got, you bought to satisfy you're greed Because 91% of the world's population links their pssessions to success Even though 88% of the wealthiest 1% of the population drinks to an alarming excess More money more stress

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

Early hopes when the pandemic first hit that nature was 'healing' had turned on their head and it appeared that in fact the virus was on the side of greed and destruction after all, annihilating all that was small and true and firming up the grip megalomaniacs and madmen had on the planet, in an attempt to push us more quickly towards the abyss.

The Solyndra scandal occurred because of people with money who have influence and power.

As far as I know, Mr. Watzke has not said he would sell me if somebody offered 100m. He has emphasised that the club would like to continue working with me. The club is just greedy for success - and so am I.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

I used to eat, like, a whole Entenmann's cake at one time with a half-gallon of milk.

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

Money has no moral opinions.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

some kill their love when they are young, and some when they are old; some strangle with the hands of lust, some with the hands of gold: THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE, because THE DEAD SO SOON GROW COLD.

The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others might pick them up.

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

As Ceres drank what she gave her, an insolent, coarse-looking boy strolled up in front of the goddess, burst into laughter and jeered, 'What a greedy female you are!' Deeply insulted, she rapidly threw what was left of her drink in the prattling idiot's face and drenched him in barley mixture.

It's sad, y'know, what money does to people.