145 Quotes About Greedy

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

Targets are achieved sooner out of need, than out of greed.

The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell the Old Masters, set up a trust, buy your favorite brewery. But that's strictly it. You're limited by honesty on one hand and law - that hobble of sanity - on the other.

Leave the quarters of the close-fisted selfishness and live in the edifice of an open-handed generosity. God gives to you, so you can share when it's required of you! Give out; conquer greed!

Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons; let us drink each other's blood in the night and betray each other in the sun. Let us lie and lust and take hundreds of lovers; let us dance until snow melts between us. Let us steal and eat until we grow fat and roll in the pleasures of life, clutching each other for purchase.

Compassion is determining one's contribution should go to a needy human and not a greedy one.

Patience is where we choose to enjoy the view instead of run off the cliff.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

The world is not mine for the taking. Rather, it is mine for the giving.