Quotes About Greed

where there was greed there was hope.

Somebody has to be tireless, or the fast-buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay, and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet.

You said if X has something valuable and Y comes along and takes it away from him, and there is absolutely no way in the world X can ever get it back, then you come along and make a deal with X to get it back, and keep half. Then you just Ã¢â'¬Â¦ live on that until it starts to run out. Is that the way it is, really?

Somebody has to be tireless, or the fast-buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay, and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet." These

Somebody has to be tireless, my boy, or the fast buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet. And with my left hand I strike the occasional blow of culture.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

Man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is more enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got.

This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.

We are a breed of spoilers!' thought Jolyon, 'close and greedy; the bloom of life is not safe with us. Let her come to me as she will, when she will, not at all if she will not. Let me be just her stand-by, her perching-place; never-never her cage!

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.

But you worship money, Nate. You're part of a culture where everything is measured by money. It's a religion.

And it's often the one you trust the most who'll cut your throat for the right price.

every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism.

I've lost my love for money. It's the curse of the devil.

SUDDEN AFFLUENCE triggers a desire for the better things in life.

the jury that conniving her way into wills handwritten by her old and vulnerable bosses was a devious pattern.

John Grisham

Greed is a strange animal

He was headed for Wall Street and had been sidetracked by the money. Only the money.

For years he had led the prayer each Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Danesboro, and the other six days he had tirelessly practiced greed and manipulation.

Vonn Dubose may have ice water in his veins, but Claudia McDover did not. Her insatiable appetite for cash was finally fading. She had enough. She and Phyllis could travel the world in style and laugh about the Indians.

He was ashamed of his greed and embarrassed by his stupidity. It was sickening what money had done to him.

A fascist is anyone who, seeing a man working hard and earning money, says, He's getting more than we are, let's pass