Quotes About Greed

Remove,' I said to myself, `the impetus to private ownership, and you have made the first giant step toward removing the causes of injustice in the world. There would be no greed if there were no possessions, no jealousy, no envy, perhaps even no hatred.

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.

Hitler's cave was much more than a wine cellar; it was a symbol of cruelty and greed, of Nazi Germany's hunger for wealth and riches.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Many a time a poor soul has been put before the dock, to save the neck of the wealthy.

Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

there's no better way to make history disappear than to unleash money, money roaming free has a worse bite than an attack dog, it can effortlessly bite an entire building out of existence

In the short run, however, stock returns are very volatile, driven by changes in earnings, interest rates, risk, and uncertainty, as well as psychological factors, such as optimism and pessimism as well as fear and greed.

It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need but not enough for every man's greed."56

Billion dollar bonuses turned rules into polite suggestions.

Perhaps we have become self-righteous about our Christian lives because we look at society around us and see flagrant immorality, pervasive dishonesty, wholesale greed, and increasing violence. We see growing acceptance of abortion as a "right" and homosexuality as an acceptable alternate lifestyle. Because we are not guilty of these more gross forms of sin, we can begin to feel rather good about our Christian lives. When

The sucker has always tried to get something for nothing, and the appeal in all booms is always frankly to the gambling instinct aroused by cupidity and spurred by a pervasive prosperity. People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

if there was any easy money lying around, no one would be forcing it into your pocket.