1,220 Quotes About Greed

There," she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to see."You're wrong! You don't know where your parents are, do you?" she turned and looked at Coraline. "Now," she said, "you're going to stay here for ever and always.

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

Greed is a little bit more than enough.

The risks in antiques fraud are relative. Other criminals risk the absolute. You've never heard of a fraudster involved in a shoot-out, of the "Come and get me, copper!" sort. Or of some con artist needing helicopter gunships to bring him. No, we subtle-mongers do it with the smile, the promise, the hint. And we have one great ally: greed. And make no mistake. Greed is everywhere, like weather.

Yet not matter how much we recycle, believe in our Priuses, and abide by local laws, we see that our beauty is being destroyed, crushed by greed and cruel stupidity.

Greed is self-preservation in action - it is selfishness in action. So to treat greed, we must treat selfishness.

Humans’ reactions are contaminated with their cognitive biases, greed, fear, and survival instinct. However, capital market success requires precisely the opposite behavior of what your intuition is suggesting.

Union :Not me alone--I know now--But all the whole oppressedPoor world,White and black,Must put their hands with mineTo shake the pillars of those templesWherein the false gods dwellAnd worn-out altars standToo well defended,And the rule of greed's upheld-That must be ended.