Greed Quotes

• Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.

  

  Benjamin Blech
  • Desire
  • Enough
  • Strive

• If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Why
  • Power
  • Religious

• If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

  

  Joan Collins
  • People
  • Greed

• I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

  

  Adam Nevill
  • Greed
  • Corporate
  • Tyrant

• There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Effort
  • Goal
  • Two

• I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Free
  • Education
  • Greed

• Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Believe
  • Lies
  • Drunk

• There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Feelings

• The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Greed
  • Satisfy

• During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

  

  Andrew Lo
  • Fear
  • Balance
  • Greed

• One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • True
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

  

  Andrew Harvey
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Greed

• I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • World
  • Money
  • Greed

• The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Earth
  • Greed
  • Resources

• Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

  

  John McAfee
  • Fear
  • Baby
  • Compassion

• But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.

  

  Peter Bogdanovich
  • People
  • Greed

• I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Greed
  • Joker

• I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Thinking
  • Fashion
  • Changed

• The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Time
  • Greed

• In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Envy

• The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Greed

• There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

  

  Charles Kuralt
  • People
  • Greed

• Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?

  

  Song Joong-ki
  • Wish
  • Dying
  • Hell

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