Greed Quote by François De La Rochefoucauld

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

— H. P. Blavatsky

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless…

— Charles Dickens

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

— Rumi

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot…

— Wang Yangming

When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in…

— Hilaire Belloc

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their…

— Livy

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

— Marcus Licinius Crassus

One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation…

— Carl Jung

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

— Lu Buwei

Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

— Benjamin Butler