1,220 Quotes About Greed

Greed is the unhealthy preoccupation for money or power. It is when your heart becomes morbidly obsessed with something good, such as a stock, that it produces harmful results. Greed is not a financial issue but it’s an issue of the heart.

Faithful people suffer and evil people prosper all the time [...]. Besides, if our actions are driven only by reward or punishment--eternal or otherwise--then they are motivated by greed and selfishness, not faith or love. That is where so many people go wrong, even those who say they believe [...]. They obey because they think it will make their *lives* better, rather than *themselves*. And that is very much the wrong reason.

High altitude professional astronomy is lost in the fog of intellectual greed.

The journey driven by the winds of greed are certain to run aground on the shoals of suffering.

Greed consumes everything that we are in the pursuit of everything that we don’t have. Therefore, to possess everything that the world has to offer but to have lost ourselves in the pursuit is to hold everything but to possess nothing.

Capitalism often inspires us to create a problem for the solution we have come up with.

In vain may heroes fight and patriots rave if secret gold sap on from knave to knave.

Can the CEO of a pharmaceutical company prioritize opioid addiction as a top concern if they are making a profit from opioids?

Can specialty physicians prioritize preventative health, physicals, and early screenings if they are doctors for people who are sick?