Greed Quotes
Most popular greed quotes
It's not greed that drives the world, but envy.
The earth has enough for every man's need but not for every man's greed.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be.
No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our goals.
Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.
Accursed greed for gold, To what dost thou not drive the heart of man.
How is it possible, that the love of gain and the lust of domination should render the human mind so callous to every principle of honor, generosity, and benevolence?
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Not even a Harvard School of Business can turn greed into a science.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
Christmas, that annual celebration of parental guilt and juvenile greed.
Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
Lust for profit has no limit, no conscience, and no virtue.