200+ Quotes about Greed! Sayings & Quotes about Greedy Person
Famous Quotes about Greed
“Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.” —Eartha Kitt
“All the money you make will never buy back your soul.” —Bob Dylan
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” —Jonathan Swift
“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.” —Democritus
“Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.” —Mason Cooley
“Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue.” —Andy Stanley
“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.” —Thomas Mann
“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.” —Bette Davis
“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.” —John D. Rockefeller
“Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.” —Salvador Dali
“The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.” —Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.” —Donald Trump
“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.” —Mia Hamm
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” —Indira Gandhi
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” —Mahatma Gandhi
Best Quotes about Greed
“Love is blind, and greed insatiable” —Proverbs
“Greed, worldly entanglements and Maya deceive the world.” —Nanak
“Man can satisfy his needs but not his greed” —Jaiswal
“Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.” —Gates Quotes
“This mind wanders around, driven by greed, totally attached to greed.” —Sahib
“The only things in this world which are never satisfied are WOMEN and GREED…” —Jaiswal
“The right price has nothing to do with greed. It has to do with demand.” —Bernoff
“Greed is so ingrained in the human psyche. I don?t know how we can stop it.” —Thornburgh
“Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.” —Perkins
“An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn’t called a decade of greed.” —Samuelson American Economist
“Peace can only be won the hard way, by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual.” —Baba
“Without the Guru, intuitive wisdom does not come, and the filth of greed does not depart from within.” —Sahib
“Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It’s the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.” —Mitchell
“Their lives were intertwined in need, driven by greed and lust. Nevertheless, the court is convinced of his love for her.” —Carter
“Alas! We are ready to commit a great sin by striving to slay our kinsmen because of greed for the pleasures of the kingdom.” —Gita
“The scandal isn’t greed in the nonprofit sector. The scandal is under-investment in our own organizations. We’re not ready to respond to the uncertainties out there.” —Light
“I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It’s time for change in America.” —Clinton
“The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.” —Baldwin
“America has been knocked-up with democracys mutant love child. She has finally borne the demonic spawn of greed, narcissism and civilian indifference. (Congrats on a second term Mr Bush).” —Carlysle Indifference
“The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment’s hesitation to crush beauty and life” —Tagore
“From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.” —Durkheim
Quotes on Greedy Person
“The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.” —Horace
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” —Erich Fromm
“The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.” —Horace
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” —Kibaki
“It’s had everything to do with personal greed and how much money they were going to make on the fishery.” —Woodruff
“That virtuous person who does not walk in the way of greed, and who abides in Truth, is accepted and famous.” —Sahib
“Every single time I have seen an entitled person welsh on a commitment, their excuse, verbalized or not, is that the provider didn’t give them enough.” —Alan Robert Neal
“This your island, which seemed as to this particular the happiest in the world, will suffer much by the cursed avarice of a few persons.” —Thomas More
“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.” —Erich Fromm
“A selfish person is one who cares only for their own pleasure, even if it causes pain to someone else. They have no consideration for anyone else, and worry only about their own comfort. Selfish people are well mannered and nice to everyone, but they’re nice only as long as they get something more back in return from the people around them.” —Calvin Dillard
“Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.” —Keillor
“If greed turns tribes into these kinds of people . . . then money is bad for them, … They are not true Native Americans.” —Jackson
“Corporate scandals, equity market problems, a lack of transparency, a lot of greed — it was not just the Dow falling, it was all of these things that make people very, very nervous.” —Smith Transparency
“The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering.” —Moon
“With various people complaining about “price gouging… economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: “Tax gouging.” But government is never accused of either “greed” or “gouging” not even when they bulldoze people’s homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.” —Sowell
“People’s lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.” —Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money.” —Joseph Sobran
“People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.” —Jacque Fresco
Quotes about Greediness
“A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.” —Swiss Proverb
“Perhaps there was hardly a person in the parish who would not have held that to go to church every Sunday in the calendar would have shown a greedy desire to stand well with Heaven, and get an undue advantage over their neighbours.” —George Eliot
“We can’t play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.” —Terry Crisp
“He who is greedy is always in want.” —Horace
“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful.” —Warren Buffett
“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.” —Maya Angelou
“He who is greedy is always in want.” —Horace
“Hitler’s appeal to greed and sloth, to increase German prosperity without requiring Germans to work for it, led into the Holocaust because confiscating Jewish property seemed to make sense to the greedy.” —Fields
“Entitled is another word for greedy.” —Alan Robert Neal
“We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.” —Mignon McLaughlin
“I’m fat because I’m greedy, and if my mind is fat it’s because I’m curious.” —Stephen Fry
“The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.” —Bono
“I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.” —Warren Buffett
“Why was there nothing it refused? No misery, no regret, no hateful picture too rotten to accept? Like a greedy child it snatched up everything. Just once, could it say, No thank you? I just ate and can’t hold another bite? . . . But my greedy brain says, Oh thanks, I’d love more . . . my brain would go right ahead and take it and never say, No thank you. I don’t want to know or have to remember that.” —Toni Morrison
“Growing up is all about facing the fake, selfish, greedy people; losing the people you love the most crying alone in bed at night or bathroom; wish to find the true love and realizing that there is nothing like true love.” —Shruti Vala
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches, or its romance.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“The less you desire the happier you are. The more you desire the greedier you become.” —Dr T.P.Chia
Inspirational Quotes about Greed
“When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.” —Louis C.K.
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me.” —Brian Tracy
“The reason for the simplicity isn’t disdain for uniqueness, as the other factions have sometimes interpreted it. Everything – our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles – is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed, and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. I try to love it.” —Anonymous
“The ideals of anarchism were perfect for me. I believed that capitalism was the source of all greed, inequality, and destruction in the world. I thought that big corporations were running the world (which I now know they do) and by supporting them, I was condoning their evil ways (which is true, but a girl’s gotta put gas in her car).” —Sophia Amoruso
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” —Donald Trump
“Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.” —Raymond Khoury.
Good Quotes about Greed
“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.” —Blaise Pascal
“So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.” —Byron
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms.” —Douglas
“Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed cuts through, clarifies, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” —Gordon Gekko
“Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.” —Bret Easton Ellis
“Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.” —Hiromu Arakawa
“I was making good money too, and it was honestly hard to consider walking away from it.” —Angie Thomas
“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we’d live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes.” —Robert Bolt
“We’re all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.” —Madeleine M Kunin
“I am awfully greed; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish you see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.” —Simone de Beauvoir
“Many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.” —Terry Goodkind.
“A life of excess is not a good life. Excess of anything leads to perversion and depression.” —Sadhguru
“If Pelagius had solved the problem of sin and human responsibility by arguing that humans are perfectly capable of doing whatever they want, Augustine solved it by saying that humans deliberately act against the good ideals that they don’t know and are selfish, greedy, lustful, stubborn, and proud. In his words, people are non-posse non peccary, “not able not to sin,” because even the good things that we do are not out of love for God but for some lesser purpose.” —Justin S Holcomb
Islamic Quotes about Greed
“Greed is permanent slavery.” —Hazrat Aliibn Abi Talib As
“There is no health where there is greed.” —Imam Ali
“Three habits destroy a man or woman: greed, envy and pride.” —Imam Ghazzali
“Greed pollutes the soul. Corrupts religion and destroys youthfulness.” —Imam ‘Ali (AS)
“Avoid greed for its champion is the captor of humiliation and exhausation.” —Imam Ali (AS)
“A man is not a believer who fills his stomach while his neighbor is hungry.” —Prophet Muhammad
“The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed.” —Imam Ali (AS)
“A greedy person is a captor of humiliation, whose captivity does not cease” —Imam Ali (AS)
“A son of Adam becomes old but two things in him become young; greed for wealth and greed for more life.” —Bukhari & Muslim
“…But people are prone to selfish greed. If you do well and have faith, Allah is aware of what you do.” —Surat an Nisa, 128
“Greed isn’t always about money. It could be about your talent, your happiness, just who you are. The less you show off, the better for you!” —Mufti Ismail Menk
“In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm; the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.” —Muhammad al-Baqir
“Two greedy people are never satiated the one who is hungry for knowledge can never get enough of it and one who is greedy for worldly possession can never get enough of it.” —Bayhaqi, Shuaib Al-Iman
“It is best to submit and adhere to satisfaction and piety, and to relieve one’s self from covetousness and greed; for greed and covetousness are present poverty and submission and satisfaction are apparent wealth.” —Imam Ali (AS)
“Refrain from greed for those who were before you perished as a result of greed. Greed commanded them to be stingy and they obeyed: it ordered them into alienation and they obeyed; and it commanded them to sin and they sinned.” —Prophet Muhammad (SAW)
Quotes about Greedy Family and Money
“A greedy father has thieves for children.” —Serbian Proverb
“You’re just lucky you got your bag back.” —Cruz gravely
“A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice.” —Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
“We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.” —Mignon McLaughlin
“You shouldn’t be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.” —Gina Carano
“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” —Warren Buffett
“Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don’t deserve it. That’s what makes it love.” —Richard Paul Evans
“It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.” —Joan Robinson
“What’s the ultimate price I’ll pay if I don’t stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they’ll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.” —Tony Robbins
“Although we cannot change the past, we can stake our claim on it and make it ours. We can know for ourselves where we have been and use that wisdom to build our future.” —Ashley Warner
“Know what happened to these Alexandrian manuscripts? The Roman Catholics used them as the foundation for their Bible. Then they spent nine centuries hunting down the real Bible to destroy it. But faithful Christians protected it – even with their blood.” —David W. Daniels
“You can get any film now basically for free, and that’s where I think the model we’re talking about is – if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they’re more likely to pay for it.” —Dana Brunetti
“Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action.” —James Luceno
“I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that’s about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It’s a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I’ll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there’s like people twice my age that look twice as good! —Rachael Ray
Funny Quotes About Greed and Selfishness
“Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.” —Zarina Bibi
“Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.” —Cathryn Louis
“For it is in giving that we receive.” —Francis of Assisi
“Life is not measured by how much you own.” —Luke 12:15, NLT
“He who wants everything every time will lose everything any time.” —Vikrant Parsai
“Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.” —Psalm 119:36
“Selfishness and greed, individual or nations, cause most of our troubles.” —Harry S Truman
“As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.” —Rusty Eric
“The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.” —Billy Graham
“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” —Napoleon Hill
“In the heart that harbors the weed of selfish greed, the flower of love cannot survive.” —Radhanath Swami
“The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.” —Laurence Overmire
“I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.” —Harry Chapin
“I just don’t like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.” —Janet Reno
“Greed, selfish, ego when you get rid of these three Life will show you these three love, kindness, humanity.” —Confused soul
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” —Oscar Wilde
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” —Oscar Wilde
“If we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed – then I believe we are getting closer to God.” —Daniel Ortega
“At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry, and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.” —Sunday Adelaja
“Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.” —James Carlos Blake
“I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars.” —Zsa Zsa Gabor
“Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold businesspeople in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact, a free market puts a premium on empathy.” —Steven Pinker
“The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.” —Oscar Arias
“It is a bitter irony to see people who can’t let go of someone or something for fear of emptiness in their life…yet their spirits are wasting away because they choose to hold on.” —Dodinsky
“The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.” —Tommy Douglas
“There is always human greed, the lack of solidarity, selfishness, which creates poverty. For this reason, it seems to me a little difficult to imagine a world without poverty…. But we must always struggle, always, always.” —Pope Francis
“As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually, greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.” —Rick Danko
“I am selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” —Marilyn Monroe
“It’s not about the fish; it’s not about the pollution; it’s not about climate change. It’s about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.” —Jeremy Jackson
“The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering.” —Sun Myung Moon
“We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness, and cruelty of “civilized” man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are sick of tales of slaughter and pictures of the carnage. It is time for a sweeping reformation; and it is precisely what we now demand.” —William Temple Hornaday
“There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow’s tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.” —Harold Stassen
“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.” —Dalai Lama
“Education has now become the chief problem of the world, it’s one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive and those that fail to do so will slowly perish…There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.” —G Stanley Hall
“… Mother Nature is punishing us, …, for our greed and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood, fire, and stone. We dig her up and dump her in the sea. We sink mine shafts into her and drag out her entrails – and all for a jewel to wear on a pretty finer. Who can blame her if she occasionally quivers with anger?” —Pliny, Pg. 176
“Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is at the root of adultery, the breaking of solemn and sacred covenants to satisfy selfish lust. Selfishness is the antithesis of love. It is a cankering expression of greed. It destroys self-discipline. It obliterates loyalty. It tears up sacred covenants. If afflicts both men and women.” —Gordon B. Hinckley
Funny Quotes about Money and Greed
“When it comes to money, everybody is of the same religion.” —Voltaire
“Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.” —Ecclesiastes 5:10
“Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all.” —Henry Ford
“A motto of many politicians, public servants, and money bags: Ask not ‘What can I do for you?’ but ‘What can I do you for?” —H M Forester
“Greed is a strange, strange sin. All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, and acquire attention. The running mantra is “I want, I want, I want” but that quickly turns to “I need, I need, I need.” —Fisher Amelie
“When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed it and asks to be paid, withhold $5 and explain that this is the income tax. Give $1 to his younger brother, and tell him that this is “fair”. Also, explain that you need the other $4 to cover the administrative costs of dividing the money. When he cries, tell him that he is being “selfish” and “greedy”. Later in life, he will thank you.” —Joseph Sobran
Quotes about Greed for Money
“Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.” —Samuel Johnson
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” —Ayn Rand
“It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.” —Samuel Butler
“If there was a simple acronym for greed, I’d use that. There’s a lot of money at stake.” —Doherty
“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.” —Wright
“Everybody clammed up. That word spoke about money and greed and all sorts of things that no one wanted to talk about.” —Dychtwald
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” —Franklin
“The whole holdout was strictly business, and for me it was about getting the opportunity to retire as a Steeler, … It was not about money or greed, it was about me wanting to retire as a Steeler and to have that chance to retire as a Steeler. Thats all I can really ask for.” —Ward
“A year ago, we were so optimistic, and then that turned into greed, quite honestly. And everybody wanted to make more money and more money. And we just kept on — stocks kept going up. So, you could just buy anything and it was going up, and everybody got in the game, and it got way overdone.” —Finnerty
“Yeah, that’s right; money is the greatest single problem-solver known to man…” —Jordan Belfort
“And, you remember our original intent was to use the emerging technology of genetic engineering to make money. A lot of money.” —Michael Crichton
“But that’s the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether you like it or not, it will try to define your days. Our task as human beings is not to let it.” —Phil Knight
Greed Quotes and Sayings
“Greed has poisoned men’s souls.” —Charlie Chaplin
“Greed is permanent slavery.” —Ali ibn Abi Talib
“For greed, all nature is too little.” —Seneca
“Fraud is the daughter of greed.” —Jonathan Gash
“Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude.” —Seneca the Younger
“Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.” —Masanobu Fukuoka
“For avarice begins where poverty ends.” —Honoré de Balzac
“Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.” —Charles Caleb Colton
“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.” —Bhagavad Gita
“The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.” —Jim Rohn
“It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.” —Charlie Munger
“What kind of society isn’t structured on greed?” —Milton Friedman
“There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.” —Tulsi Das
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” —Albert Einstein
“Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.” —Andy Stanley
“Greed is the lack of confidence of one’s own ability to create.” —Vanna Bonta
“Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.” —Julian Casablancas
“Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.” —Ruby Dee
“Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.” —Little Richard
“If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.” —Thomas Fuller
“Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.” —Rumi
“There’s enough on this planet for everyone’s needs but not for everyone’s greed.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.” —Friedrich Engels
“Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.” —Aaron Swartz
“When we let our greed become our need, we can never be happy indeed! – RVM
“It is possible to satisfy your need. It is impossible to satisfy your greed.” —Dr T.P.Chia
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.” —B.C. Forbes
“There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.” —Edward Abbey
“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.” —Frank Zappa
“You’ve cheated death too many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.” —Leigh Bardugo
“No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.” —Jacque Fresco
“The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.” —Frédéric Bastiat
“The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.” —Logan Pearsall
“Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.” —Janwillem Van De Wetering
“Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.” —Anthony de Mello
“The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.” —Bernie Sanders
“TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.” —Ambrose Bierce
“How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.” —Margaret Atwood
“There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.” —Lau Tzu
“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, and there is no torrent like greed.” —Gautama Buddha
“None of the quick fixes to the world’s problems are going to work, unless we change the dream of greed and scarcity that the world is dreaming.” —John Perkins
“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.” —Stephen Hawking
“Greed usually comes from deadly sin impatience. Because we hate to wait for anything, we prefer to pursue several goals at the same time. Multitasking has really hit it off with mind setting.” —Sumesh Nair
“To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.” —Charlie Chaplin
“No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.” —Martin Buber
“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.” —Ayn Rand