Top Greed Quotes

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

Greed Definition

(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend...

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

DEATH is big business.Thank god for capitalism.

War sells!

Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn't mean we aredoomed. Let's go forth tomorrow with no great expectations...

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned thei...

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

Speechless is not even a good enough word to describe what I feel when I see the pictures of how we have transformed the world from the good to bad, from natural to artificial, physical appearance to...

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.