A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled
The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the ligh...
Money isn't everything. It's the only thing.
I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.
I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blind by greed.
You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?...
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Maybe we need to reflect on the fact that the patience of God always outruns the impatience of our greed, and that His love always outweighs the greed that outweighs our love for Him.
I do not want to grow for the sake of growth. Never will I be blinded by greed.
The creed of greed:Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.(IN BANKS WE TRUST)
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
I recognized that hunger: a devouring thing that would gulp down lives with pleasure and would only pretend to care about law or justice, unless you had some greater power behind you that it couldn’t...
The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of...
Organized scarcity is the best way to increase your profits.This is the idea of the ends justify the means. There are second and third order effects that will take away all of the gains and then some....
We are some combination of strengths and weaknesses, virtues and less-than-virtuous inclinations. Greed, selfishness and pride are often co-conspirators planning their return just beyond the surface o...
There, she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to see.You're wrong! You know where your parents are, do you? she turned and looked at Co...