Quotes About Greed

For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich—the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising—and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana's: "Money is the petrol of life.

I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

I'm very happy doing what I'm doing; I don't think I'm prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I'd like to give it 100%. I'm not in the frame of mind, and I'm too greedy an actor to do that.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

Class envy is dangerous.

Money can make or break you. It just depends on what you make it to be.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

Money can destroy people. It really can.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.

Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.

I've never had big diamonds; I never had big cars.

Corruption empowers and enriches dictators.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.