Quotes About Greed

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.  ~ William Faulkner


Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.  ~ Erich Fromm


It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.  ~ Cornel West


He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.  ~ Publilius Syrus


A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.  ~ Clarence Day


We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.  ~ Frederick Keonig


Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi


If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.  ~ Joyce Meyer


Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.  ~ Frederick Douglass


Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.  ~ Janwillem van de Wetering


We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.  ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt


He who is greedy is always in want. ~ Horace


From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.  ~ Friedrich Engels


There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.  ~ Maya Angelou


Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.  ~ Siddhārtha Gautama


In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.  ~ Henry A. Wallace


When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.  ~ Shirley Chisholm


I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.  ~ Warren Buffett