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Greed Quotes

When a man decides to start working, he does so for two reasons. One reason revolves around a career, while the other revolves around money. Money is a necessity, but when a man gets his hands on this necessity, the necessity almost inevitably becomes greed. Sadly, man does not greed for just money; his greed can also extend to power and property. Greed, only up to a certain point can be justified, beyond that certain point; it is really nothing but a killer. Read on to discover famous quotations and sayings on greed.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.
Love Fear
Josh Brolin

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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Money Nothing Recognition Reputation
Salvador Dali

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Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
Celebrities Entertainment
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Men Attitude Purpose Confidential
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
People Power Society Medicine
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Fulfillment Effort
Erich Fromm

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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Inspiration Advice
Sir Thomas Browne

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We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.
America Haughtiness Pride Comparisons
Osama bin Laden

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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
Love People Cost Suffering
Thomas Mann

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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Meaningful Advice Attitude Plants
John Greenleaf Whittier

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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen Hawking

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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
World
Mahatma Gandhi

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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
Stock Market
Joe Biden

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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
People Reason Desire Predestination
Thomas Mann

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I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.
Time
Danny DeVito

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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Equity Innovation
Bill Gates

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Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.
Peace Capitalism
Brad Pitt

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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
Time
James Baldwin

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What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.
Brad Pitt

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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Country World
Barack Obama

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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Buddhism Body Pleasure Selflessness
Anonymous

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