Quotes About Greed

They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people.

I would miss the kindness of good people who were compassionate when so many were pitiless, who made their way through so much corruption without being corrupted themselves, who eschewed envy in a world of envy, who eschewed greed in a world of greed, who valued truth and could not be drowned in a sea of lies, for they shone and, by the light they cast, they had warmed me all my life.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...

The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet.

In a world sick with envy that leads to coveting that leads to greed that too often results in violence, it wouldn't seem that something as small as excellent muffins could lift a man's spirits, even during talk of murder. But that is the way of the world: sadness and delight, anger and forbearance, hatred and love—all woven together in every inch of the tapestry.

Casinos have no windows, no clocks. The masters of the games want their customers to forget the passage of time, to lay down just one more bet, and then one more.

Balzac had written, "Behind every great fortune, there is a crime," which was both a cliché and a lie. However

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime

Human life must be cheap to the one who can place the dollar above it -John Ruston

There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy

people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money.

They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won't catch them making off with the feast.

Yoksul insanlar zengin adam?n alt?nlar? için ölür ve bu her zaman da böyle olacak, deÄŸil mi?

But there—poor men mun bleed for the rich man's gold, and always will, eh?

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

In politics, the money man is usually the dumbest person in the room.

I've got friends who want money but don't want to do anything to earn it.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

Shoot, I ain't working for free. You can never have enough money.

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

The Million Dollar Man thought he could buy anybody or anything and that was the essence of the character. About as evil as you can get!

el que tiene dinero quiere más; nunca lo ha regalado y nunca lo hará.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.