Quotes About Greed

In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

When you have a billion dollar show, there's a few people that have their hands out.

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

I think financial markets only look after their own interests.

Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.

People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.