Quotes About Greed

All evil karma ever committed by me since of old, Because of my beginningless greed, anger, and ignorance, Born of my body, mouth, and thought, Now I atone for it all.

One phrase stuck in Fainy's mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

Is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground Then complain and pray for more from above Greedy little pig

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

Unless you have money today, you cannot live life according to your need.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

I always want more, and that's just my life.

Gluttony is, after all, one of the seven deadly sins, and it's not because it's associated with obesity, a threat to an individual's survival, but because it represents overconsumption to the point of wastefulness, a threat to an entire community. Today, a gluttony of consumption has become the norm.

M + D = C, Monopoly plus Discretion equals Corruption

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Freud said that once we have the basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter, and health, then what we seek is wealth, power, honor, and the love of men and women. For financial titans who aggressively continue to seek tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and sometimes billions, you can ask, "Is the winner really the one who dies with the most toys?" How much is enough? When will you be done? Often the answer is "Never.

You can make money in a small way without politics. But to make big money, you need to buy the legislature. Can't be done otherwise.

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.

But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.

The speculator's deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope.

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.