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Quotes About Greed

This bank-note world.
~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
~ Ben Affleck
Money is a never-ending problem.
~ Alvin Ailey
All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.
~ RuPaul
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
~ Rita Rudner
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
~ John Malkovich
Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.
~ Elinor Glyn
The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.
~ Isabella Bird
Put money in thy purse.
~ William Shakespeare
It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
~ Agatha Christie
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
~ Josh Billings
I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.
~ Mother Teresa
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
~ Davy Crockett
Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?
~ Shekhar Kapur
That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."
~ Ace Hood
Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
~ Josh Billings
Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
~ Anton Chekhov
Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.
~ Murray Walker
That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.
~ Helen McCloy
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
~ William Jennings Bryan
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.
~ Susanna Centlivre
My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.
~ Ida Tarbell