Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sathya Baba

Peace can only be won the hard way, by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual.

Brian Lee

Rising prices are not just greedy people lining their pockets,

man can satisfy his needs but not his greed

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

I think they were greedy, heartless, insensitive, unprofessional, unethical.

the only things in this world which are never satisfied are WOMEN and GREED...

Dick Thornburgh

Greed is so ingrained in the human psyche. I don?t know how we can stop it.

I think it's just greed and power at its very worst.

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Bill Gurley

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Ayn Rand

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

Ben Nicholson

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

So it's a legacy issue. What legacy do we want to leave? Are we greedy or are we worried about the future?

Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Aristotle

Greed has no boundaries

Ben Jonson

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Greed is permanent slavery

Adrienne Rich

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

Cornel West

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

Deb Caletti

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

Vandana Shiva

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

David Mamet

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

Annie Dillard

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Conrad Black

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

Douglas Coupland

The only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.

Confucius

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

Andy Stanley

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Andrew Vachss

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

Andrew Weil

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Chuck D.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it...

Ambrose Bierce

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.