We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to be a world champion. Money's nice too. You add the temptation and the greed aspect in there.… — Darren Elkins Copy Share Image
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“To make your Opinion Count, you have to do something more than just making Money.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.” — Thomas Warfield Copy Share Image
“Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion… — Lynette Fromme Copy Share Image
“The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person’s profit can… — Rocco Leonard Martino Copy Share Image
Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Greed is a strange, strange sin. All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire… — Amelie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-binding" being. This theory… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad.… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“I followed suit, a little bit nervous, and very unaware of what I was supposed to do. I had that same sensation… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's… — Rafe Martin Copy Share Image
“I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. — John Donne Copy Share Image
“The God I believe in believes in me and won’t silence my heart or others based on a paycheck at the end… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be, Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly; - 153 -” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
Sometimes less is more. Time is money. Ideas can be profitable. Separate fans from supporters. Passion exceeds greed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image