Quotes About Greed

Who thought of money?

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit.

People will sell you out for profit, that's just how people are.

The chance to profit from corruption is why many authoritarian leaders seize and cling to power.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

The conniving, rich oilmen that were so desperate to prevent and frustrate the Paris Agreement found cheerleaders in Mr. Trump and his party. They choose to protect their profits from a flailing fossil fuel industry over human lives and a clean, inclusive future for us all.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

Property is organized robbery.

Property is a nuisance.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down

agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair.

the snow of twenty-nine wasn't real snow. If you didn't want it to be snow, you just paid some money.