Greed Quotes - Page 16

I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?

I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity.

Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Greed is a deprivation of abundance, a hoarding, a constriction of energy.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.

I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Today is much more an age of greed

We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.

If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.