Greed Quotes - Page 2

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Those who own much have much to fear.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.