Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Schiff

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.

Ovid

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

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

Fridtjof Nansen

The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

James Surowiecki

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

Henry Spencer

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

Henry Ford

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Jade Johnson

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

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.

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.

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.