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Quotes About Greed

The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
~ Gautama Buddha
The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
~ Matt Taibbi
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.
~ Joseph Sobran
My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!
~ John Dillinger
How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.
~ John D. Rockefeller
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.
~ Don Bluth
There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
~ Gene Simmons
At the end of the day, it's all about money.
~ Garry Kasparov
I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.
~ John Coltrane
Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
~ Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound
Mike, we are a green energy company, but the green stands for money.
~ Jeffrey Skilling
Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.
~ Heinrich Heine
Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.
~ Ed Seykota
A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money
~ Ed Seykota
We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.
~ Mark Boyle
Money is the best deodorant.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
~ Joe Louis
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
~ Anacreon
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.
~ Richard J. Needham