1,220 Quotes About Greed

If a man receives thirteen coins, he will hanker after sixteen, and possessing them he considers life unbearable unless he now earns forty. Nature, it might be observed, imposes strict boundaries on a person's height and age span, so that in even the most extreme instances no one can rise or fall too far or too short from the rest, whereas no such boundary inhibits money.

98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.

If money is your only measure of success, do not be surprised when it is all you have.

Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.

The value of money is a scam perpetuated by those who have it over those who don't.

A lord who does not distribute wealth is a lord who will lose the allegiance of his men,

How the stories circulated on every campus! If you weren’t making $250,000 a year within five years, than you were either grossly stupid or grossly lazy. That was the word. By age 30, $500,000–and that sum had the taint of the mediocre. By age forty you were either making a million a year or you were timid and incompetent. Make it now! That motto burned in every heart, like myocarditis.

The awareness that ‘money will get spent’ must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That’s why it has been stated that money should be spent, so that one can become free from greed and it can be given again and again.

For how long does one have obstacles in earning money? As long as he has the desire to earn it. The moment there is disinterest towards money, it will come in abundance.