Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Dick Thornburgh

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

Ben Jonson

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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.

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.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

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.

Bill Gurley

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

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

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.

B. C. Forbes

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

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.

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

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.

Greed is permanent slavery

Douglas Coupland

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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...

Brian Lee

Rising prices are not just greedy people lining their pockets,

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.

Sathya Baba

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

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

Deb Caletti

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