Quotes About Greed

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

The answer is greed. We are dying of greed. I don't know the cure for that.

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.

My point is, you can have everything and still not have enough.

At the heart lay a culture of regulatory capture, bureaucratic silos, plain incompetence, and outsized greed, resulting in the abandonment of each institution's fiduciary responsibilities.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

The Wolf of Wall Street

the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources.

money is the lance, not the grail

was greed that broke Wall Street, not the lack of financial algorithms.

I thought carefully about the events of the evening and decided that there must be limitations on desires. It wasn't true that I could have anything I wanted. I felt good about understanding that, but I still didn't know how people figured out what it was safe to want. I did know, from my mother's scolding, that 'wanting' was a problem. If the desire could not be filled, then I was greedy and selfish. Since I couldn't figure out how to judge the possibility of fulfilling a desire. (66).

A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

It is my sad observation that some men always want more.

I don't envy him. I think he's made too much money. The more material things you have, the more you have to lose.

Discontment is an insidious thing, trapping us into thinking that which is enough is longer enough, and that which is satisfying is no longer satisfying.

A shining fortune. Humans have killed each other for a single gem.

Johannes said greedy people can never be happy, and I would so much like to know what it feels like to be happy. Johannes said that when you very much want something you haven't got, you no longer care for what you have got. I'm not sure I understand, but I suppose he meant that things are only worth having if you think they are.

Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed." ~ A thought by Lessa ~

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.

It all comes down to fear and greed. The easiest way to make that respectable is to call it nationalism, as you can't fault a man for loving his country.

The trees were not Aletheia's gift to the wizards for their service, not living monuments to great men and women. They were monuments of a desperate act, necessitated because of foolishness and greed. The trees were not the wizards' respite. They were their sacrifice.