Quotes About Greed

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.

You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!

Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.