Quotes About Greed

How sick I am of thinking about money all the time. It's like and hideous disease destroying energy...contentment...joy... (...) It's depressing how money is always at the beginning and end of things.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader.

Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money.

Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.