What is is plenty, but more is never enough.
Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.
Marty, my mother used to say Never get greedy with God. I think what she meant was Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need.
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really c...
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
So the unwanting soulsees what's hidden,and the ever-wanting soulsees only what it wants.
We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?
There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted...
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to gi...
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.