Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry S Truman

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

J. K. Rowling

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

Julian Casablancas

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Michael Douglas

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Sharon Shinn

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

Simon Winchester

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

Socrates

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Millard Fuller

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

Mignon McLaughlin

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Plato

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Philip Roth

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

Mason Cooley

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

If there was a simple acronym for greed, I'd use that. There's a lot of money at stake.

Lauryn Hill

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

Jacque Fresco

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

Mahatma Gandhi

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

Mahatma Gandhi

There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

Jake Roberts

A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice.

Louis MacNeice

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

You go into every series wanting to win the series. But when you win the first two you get greedy and want to go for the sweep. We're pleased with the outcome as a whole.

Robert Kiyosaki

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

It's had everything to do with personal greed and how much money they were going to make on the fishery.

This isn't a matter of greed -- this is a matter of survival.

Robert Herrick

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Tami Hoag

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

Thomas Pynchon

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

Robert Redford

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Thomas S. Monson

We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

Thomas S. Monson

We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.

Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

Roald Dahl

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

Richard Rogers

Today is much more an age of greed