1,220 Quotes About Greed
- Author Matt Taibbi
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The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
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- Author Fisher Amelie
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August said you row?” she asked. Her voice spilled over me like warm syrup. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the drugging sensation then realized she’d asked me a question.“Yeah,” I answered belatedly. Good. A short answer but it’s better than mouth diarrhea. “I row...a-uh-boat...with-uh-my teammates.” Superb! Just-uh-superb.
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- Author al-Haafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbalee
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Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).
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- Author Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
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The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled by greed.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Ambition is greed without makeup.
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- Author Pat Conroy
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We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
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- Author Israelmore Ayivor
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The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.
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- Author Dr V V Rao
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Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life.
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