Quotes About Greed

Money can't buy happiness, because you never have enough money.

Money kills people more than weapons do.

So many people who desire poverty get it quickly, but those who desire wealth never have it.

Something is everything for nothing and now everyone is ready to do anything to achieve nothing.

The earth revolves around money.

The man who desires to become rich, desires to become rich quickly and quickly fail if he wants to become rich quick.

There are two things that corrupt a man: money and women. Working to avoid it is great wisdom.

There is not much difference between a greedy person and a pauper.

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. (Colossians 3:5-6)

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

O accurst craving for gold!

America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.

Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.