1,220 Quotes About Greed

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

It’s not a sin to be obsessed with money, for without it, there can be no material benefits. But what about the richness of experience? The richness of knowledge or that of the inner world? These are the questions that people belonging to the present generation must ponder upon.

Money dominates everybody except those who do not want money.Rudyard Kipling in an address at McGill University in 1907

Build great value around your name with integrity, do away with fraud, greed, deception, cheating and stealing, and work on your character not leaving your reputation behind, you may never know when and where your name may be mentioned.

Social Darwinism, or the idea that those who are the best and smartest earn the most money, has two holes: first, not all intelligent people opt to chase the money wagon and second, most morons are greedy, and many of them succeed through luck or persistence.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

As greed prevails, greed will unveil the evil.

Let the pushers and the grabbers climb their ladders, I'll stay here dancing on the ground.