145 Quotes About Greedy

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

Some folks are so busy stuffing their face that they don’t see their neighbor starving.

Greed can be the unwillingness to give OR the willingness to take.

Greed is the thief of the soul.

This administrator of trade is the worst sort of bureaucrat. He abides by every rule, delights in making his own whenever it can inconvenience someone, and at the same time believes that he is doing good… I didn’t think I would ever meet a noble who wasn’t corrupt. Now that I have I find that I prefer them when they’re greedy bastards. - Brom

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.

Being my own cause is to position the world around me so that the entirety of it would be at my disposal. And if there’s one way to rather quickly and efficiently dispose of my life, this would be it.

It doesn’t take much intelligence to understand that obedience to greed can make us a slave to stupidity. Yet, I think that the power of greed is amply illustrated by simply taking note of how many intelligent people have chosen slavery.

There's nothing worse, than having a scratch you cannot itch.