Quotes About Greed

For what? Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

I made a killing in the stock market. My broker lost all my money, so I killed him.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Capitalism is founded on greed and envy

Insatiable avarice only needs a teaspoon of love.

My friend Eduardo made $300,000 betting oil futures one summer, and Eduardo won't come close to getting in. The ability to make money doesn't impress anybody around here.

The spider's lesson is never to be greedy. It shows that objects of necessity can be objects of beauty and art as well. The spider teaches us that we can be too easily enraptured with ourselves.

Ellos (Los Auténticos) creen que los objetos generan miedo. Cuantas más cosas tienes más tienes que temer. Al final sólo vives para tener cosas.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Humans have these notions of power, control, hierarchy, greed, anger, envy, lust, etc. It really is quite bizarre where these tendencies lead us. We have human billionaires on planet earth who choose to gather more and more wealth at the expense of everyone else. But why? Once all of a person's human needs have been supplied, to unimaginable levels of luxury, what is the point of having more? To have power and control over other humans?