Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

Thomas S. Monson

We need to learn how to separate need from greed.

Tami Hoag

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

Socrates

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

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.

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.

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.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Etty Hillesum

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Jennifer Stone

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

Georges Courteline

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

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.

man can satisfy his needs but not his greed

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.

James Earl Jones

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

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.

Jakob Dylan

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Jamais Cascio

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

Idries Shah

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

Isaac Asimov

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

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.

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.