Quotes About Greed

One day the poor will have nothing left to eat except the rich

Hatred stupidity devotion greed the four horsemen of the new apocalypse.

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

Success has ruined many a man.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Of course,' the inspector remarked, with the naïvety of the corrupt, 'if he had really been rich, he would not be in prison.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction. The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and the life would diminish, the total of the amount.

At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.

Every day he spoke of the immensity of the treasure, explaining to Dantes all the good a man could do for his friends in our modern times with such a fortune. At those moments Dantes' face would darken, for he thought of how much harm a man could do to his enemies in our modern times with such a fortune.