Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

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.

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.

Charlie Pierce

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

Jade Johnson

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

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.

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

Joe Franklin

The whole idea is never to get greedy indoors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Leunig

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

Anna Jameson

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

Bernie Sanders

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

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.

Douglas Coupland

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

Greed is permanent slavery

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...

Conrad Black

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

Confucius

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

Ambrose Bierce

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