Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Robert Herrick

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Ruby Dee

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

Thomas Carlyle

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

Saint Patrick

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

Thomas Pynchon

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

Vernor Vinge

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Vanna Bonta

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Tami Hoag

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

God promises to meet our needs, not our greeds.

Richard Armitage

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Mason Cooley

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Michel de Montaigne

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

So it's a legacy issue. What legacy do we want to leave? Are we greedy or are we worried about the future?

Dick Thornburgh

Greed is so ingrained in the human psyche. I don?t know how we can stop it.