Greed Quotes

958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first — Unknown Author
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed. — Sonja Lyubomirsky
There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority. — Millard Fuller
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of… — Frederick Buechner
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from… — Frederic Bastiat
The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed. — John Kenneth Galbraith
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed. — Madeleine M. Kunin
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog… — John Fire Lame Deer
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature. — Masanobu Fukuoka
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one… — Jacque Fresco
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. Â This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,… — Jacque Fresco
It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy. — Charlie Munger
The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity. — Keith Ferrazzi
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its… — Octave Mirbeau
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence… — Rich Mullins
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so… — Agnes de Mille
I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the… — Jason Newsted
The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes… — Polly Adler
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found… — Lucy Parsons
Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost. — Laozi
There is no greater misfortune than greed. — Laozi
Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant. — Joseph Finder
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes… — J F C Fuller
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not… — Walter Wink
One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money… — John Armstrong

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