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Quotes About Greed

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
~ Lord Byron
Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
~ Philip Schaff
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
~ Propertius
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.
~ Juvenal
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
~ Craig Ferguson
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Money always talks louder than morality.
~ Grieves
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
~ Ben Jonson
With money, who needs friends?
~ Frank Gorshin
Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
~ Christina Stead
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
~ Anthony Trollope
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
~ Mark Twain
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I've been in a situation where I was after the money.
~ Morris Chestnut
Money itch is a bad thing. I never had that trouble.
~ Amadeo Giannini
When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's funny how money change a situation.
~ Lauryn Hill
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
~ Augustus William Hare
Money is a way of creating scarcity.
~ Peter Coyote
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
~ Ovid
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.
~ Robert De Niro
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson