1,220 Quotes About Greed

... He was only a person on the outside and... his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

Civilization on Earth planet was equated with selfishness and greed; those people who lived in a civilized state exploited those who did not. There were shortages of vital commodities on Earth planet, and the people in the civilized nations were able to monopolize those commodities by reason of their greater economic strength. This imbalance appeared to be at the root of thedisputes.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

A man who has caught a billion is not nearly as admirable as a boy (or even a man) who was caught by a million.

Entrepreneurship is, to most entrepreneurs, the art of using things such as the need for job creation as veils to hide the desire to make way more money than is needed.