1,220 Quotes About Greed

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned their backs on the sufferings of others, and left them in pain; those whose greed meant that others starved and died. Such souls belong here, because they would find no peace elsewhere. In this place, they are understood. In this place, their faults have meaning. In this place, they belong.

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

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.