Greedy Quotes
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
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Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
Viktor Korchnoi
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
Oscar Wilde
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
Inbee Park
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
Tanith Lee
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some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.
Helen Gurley Brown
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
Thomas More
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I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
Diogenes
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own.
Sallust
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If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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One of the ideals Margaret Thatcher grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.
Hilary Mantel
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We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth; of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!
David LaChapelle
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Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
Jack Gilbert
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He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
Seneca the Younger
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What Margaret Thatcher made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.
Hilary Mantel
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If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom would have a lot more.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
Tami Hoag
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I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.
Andrew Fastow
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Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.
Plutarch
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I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.
Elise Valmorbida
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If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long as you are not too greedy and don't get too emotional when things go against you.
Walter Schloss