Quotes About Greed

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear.

Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.

Lead a simple life. First reduce your greeds. Then reduce your needs.

People hate what they can't conquer, envy what they can't get, and destroy what they already have.

In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The Pursuit of earning TRUST not greed will bring success.

Sometimes people who want more than they can handle end up losing everything altogether. Greed and selfishness will get you nowhere in life

Money at that level was not something that could be counted; it was dynamic, a living thing that swelled and shrank and consumed the money of others, companies buying companies buying companies for fifty iterations.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual.