Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Agnes de Mille

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Aaron Swartz

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

What this is about, this is isn't about pro sports, this is about greed. This is about money, power and arrogance.

Arianna Huffington

having too much is never enough.

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

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.

B. C. Forbes

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

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.

Aristotle

Greed has no boundaries

Ben Jonson

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

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

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.

Dick Thornburgh

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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