Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Stone

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Jean de La Fontaine

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

Jean de La Fontaine

We risk all in being too greedy.

Horace

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Michael Leunig

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and greed murdered New Orleans,

The right price has nothing to do with greed. It has to do with demand.

Jade Johnson

For me it isn't about the money or the greed, it's always been about the medals.

James Earl Jones

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Jean de la Bruyere

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.

Josh Brolin

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

Milton Friedman

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

Eric Cantona

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

Jasper Fforde

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Isobelle Carmody

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Jonathan Ive

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

Ovid

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Joe Biden

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Pearl S. Buck

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

Peter Schiff

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

John Scalzi

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

Paul Samuelson

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

Paul Samuelson

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Michel de Montaigne

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

Publilius Syrus

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Publilius Syrus

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

Publilius Syrus

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Margaret Atwood

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

Lillian Hellman

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

Idries Shah

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.