Quotes About Greed

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.

The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

There's nothing as real as money.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

It's just like Eddie Sharkey told me along time ago...GET THE MONEY!

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Every organization, no matter who it is, just follow the money.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

Washington's a cesspool of money.

There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.