Greed Quotes
958 Greed quotes by 688 unique authors
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A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First,…
— Warren Buffett
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You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.…
— George Carlin
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The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for…
— Bernard Madoff
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You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were…
— Bernard Madoff
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I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more?…
— Vince McMahon
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I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of…
— Sam Walton
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A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by…
— Terence Blacker
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Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.
— Unknown Author
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the…
— Boris Johnson
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For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad…
— Barack Obama
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Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works.
— Oliver Stone
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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
— Warren Buffett
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What kind of society isn't structured on greed?
— Milton Friedman
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Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is…
— Sean O'Casey
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Greed has no boundaries
— Aristotle
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If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred,…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young…
— Rajneesh
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There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the…
— Gautama Buddha
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a…
— Gautama Buddha
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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
— Gautama Buddha
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From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.
— Gautama Buddha
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The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of…
— Kenneth Clarke
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