1,220 Quotes About Greed

Greed exercises a greater influence on the planet than the sun or the moon. Some day the human race will pay a terrible price for hitching its wagon to this evil star.

Unhappy Land, whose Blessings tempt the Sword.Eclogue the Fourth. Agib and Secander; or the Fugitives

Greed, It’s Sad when people think of you as an Easy Target Most of the times

She had grown now not to blame any man, honest miner or bloody bandit. She blamed only gold. She doubted its value. She could not see it a blessing. She absolutely knew its driving power to change the souls of men. Could she ever forget that vast ant-hill of toiling diggers and washers, blind and deaf and dumb to all save gold?

If financial gain remains our main motive then we can be certain that rich fathers will leave behind poor sons!

A person whom lives in a deliberate and thoughtful manner can resist passively assimilating society’s deviant values and unwholesome cultural mores, and live in a courageous and generous manner while passionately pursuing a full life that transcends wastefulness, miserly accumulation, and exploitation of other people.

To gorge ourselves on everything is to walk away with nothing. And maybe that’s part of the reason why we’re always hungry for something.

Without exaggerating the point, the difference between ‘what I should do’ verses ‘what I want to do’ is quite frankly the difference between success and failure.

Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me one or the other. Every time—every ten out of ten —he'll hug the sack and throw away the ideals. Because the sack’s what’s behind the ideals, like the foundation under a building.