Greed Quotes

958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year,… — Barack Obama
In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of… — Barack Obama
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. — Michael Douglas
Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal. — Michael Douglas
Don’t let the dark clouds of greed confuse you — Kevin O'Leary
The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed. — Jack Palance
These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught… — Carl Sagan
Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms. — Ruby Dee
Beware the beast man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will… — Roddy McDowall
Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies. — Jello Biafra
Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis… — Seth Klarman
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less. — Annie Dillard
Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know… — Breyten Breytenbach
It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring — Ed Mayo
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own… — Marianne Williamson
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving… — Satish Kumar
Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on… — Ian Christie
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for… — William J. Clinton
Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and… — Rajneesh
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games… — John Fowles
In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little. — Lloyd Alexander
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. — Edward Abbey
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for… — Samuel Gompers

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