Quotes About Greed

Civilization on Earth planet was equated with selfishness and greed; those people who lived in a civilized state exploited those who did not. There were shortages of vital commodities on Earth planet, and the people in the civilized nations were able to monopolize those commodities by reason of their greater economic strength. This imbalance appeared to be at the root of the disputes.

At root, the business of baseball was no better or different from the movies or from church: put on a show, promise people something transcendent, and then bleed the suckers dry.

Sounds descriptive of some TV evangelists from the "name it and claim it" crowd. They certainly are "rich and increased with goods . . .")

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts; but, without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

But I will tell you truly, I have never seen alcoholics go to such great lengths to get liquor as people on Main Street will go to get money. It is a thirst, an addiction, which can crush and kill people. Many, many people who would think twice about getting drunk on alcohol will go on a big old greedy binge trying to buy up every piece of land they can get.

He who desires is always poor.

Money attracts money like a magnet. It doesn't trickle down. It is sucked up.

When trees are treated as a commodity, cutting them down is good for business. When people are a commodity, enslaving them, exploiting them and underpaying them is good for business. When everything is a commodity, the landscape grows barren, and the earth turns to dust.

There is greed in questioning if you keep on asking the same question.

The needs of the people may be limited because of wants. To need more is to want less. But to want more is to need more.

The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has not done anything wrong, but has merely demonstrated his smartness.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

But what do they get by the change? One dog sated with meat is replaced by a hungrier dog who bites nearer the bone. Out goes the man grown fat with honor, and in comes a hungry and a lean man.

He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands. No, It passes through them, alas.

She is selling herself by the inch. The gentlemen all say you are advising her. She wants a present in cash for every advance above her knee.' 'Not like you, Mary. One push backwards and, good girl, here's your fourpence.' 'Well. You know. If king are doing the pushing." She laughs. "Anne has very long legs. By the time he comes to her secret part he will be bankrupt. The French wars will be cheap, in comparison.

The Commons. God rot them. ... They never think higher than their pockets.

The more flesh, the more worms. The more possessions, the more worry.

Own profit be made and let public go to hell. In a city of deaf and dumb, who listens to whom (Apna kam banta bhad me jaye janta. Gunge behro ki nagri me kaun kisi ki sunta )

Saccha hai yahan kangal, to Beimaan hai malamal (Here the honest person is poor, the corrupt people are rich)