Quotes About Greed

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

We all play football to get money.

I can't play football forever, I am not a greedy person.

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

The best way to hit a man is in his pocket.

It is clear that there has been money, but it has gone to line the pockets of the corrupt.

Some shareholders believe it is all about price and a few people's pockets.

I wear gold all of the time. I collect gold like a magpie.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.

Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

Cherokee stories have been passed down through many generations. Storytelling is an art form. Storytellers are actors, singers, dancers, and mimes who tell stories about the Cherokee people and animals. Animals are important in Cherokee stories. Many stories tell of people who could speak with the animals. Some stories tell how the Cherokee could once communicate with animals. According to this belief, the Cherokee lost this ability because their ancestors were greedy and talked too much.

avaro hasta el extremo de que si en vez de nacer hombre hubiera nacido reloj, por no dar no habría dado ni las horas,

La plata es como una droga, lo fundamental es tenerla, saber que está, ir, tocarla, revisar el ropero, entre la ropa, la bolsa, ver que hay medio kilo, que hay cien mil mangos, quedarse tranquilo. Entonces recién se puede seguir viviendo.

Politics was for those who had too much to eat.

The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that benefits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

Rdx enim omnium malrum est cupidits. (I Timothy 6.10: rdx, rdcis, f., root; source, origin; "radical," "radish.")