Greed Quotes - Page 23

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

We are rich only through what we give.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.

Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.

I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.

For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.