Greed is an uncontrolled longing for increase in the acquisition or use: of material gain; or social value, such as status, or power. Profoundly inspirational greed quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Margaret J. Wheatley
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. Mwai Kibaki
The world says You have needs satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more. This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed. Pavel Durov
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J.R.R. Tolkien
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. Mason Cooley
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me? Brian Tracy
Greed is the lack of confidence of one’s own ability to create. Vanna Bonta
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms. Khaled Hosseini
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. Julian Casablancas
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see. Al Ghazzali
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we’re still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. Michael Leunig
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. Alice Walker
There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory. Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along. Elizabeth Warren
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few. John L. Lewis
Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men. Leigh Bardugo
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. Friedrich Engels
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful. Warren Buffett
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. Marya Mannes
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. Siddharta Gautama
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. Jacques Yves Cousteau
If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. Jasper Fforde
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. Milton Friedman
I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. C. JoyBell C.
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. Milton Friedman
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. Michel de Montaigne
We can’t allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for. Cindy Sheehan
Our labour preserves us from three great evils weariness, vice, and want. Voltaire
An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn’t called a decade of greed. Paul Samuelson
They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed some, but not all. Some people can’t be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won’t break. Robin Wasserman
The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. James Baldwin
Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun. Kurt Vonnegut
India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy. Sushma Swaraj
I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy
When there is money, there is also greed. Everyone wants to talk to you when there is money. Only if you have the passion for it, you must become a philanthropist, else it’ll become a headache. Sudha Murty
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog eat dog world we lose part of our humanity. Jon Foreman
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion. Jiddu Krishnamurti
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. Shirley Chisholm
Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher’s greed culture. Marco Pierre White
That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that. Anthony Doerr
Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue. Andy Stanley
I want an Oompa Loompa! screamed Veruca. Roald Dahl
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. Mahatma Gandhi
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. Horace Mann
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe
The best is the enemy of good. Voltaire
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. Eartha Kitt
You ever get the feeling the world’s filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that’s left in the world is bastards? The golden rule. Screw unto others before they screw unto you. William Hoffman
Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness. Bill Gates
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Maya Angelou
For greed all nature is too little. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Master said, If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. Confucius
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul. Little Richard
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. G.K. Chesterton
Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac. Michael Moore
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. Diogenes of Sinope
Think of Donald Trump’s personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as The Donald. He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn’t because he had attributes we admired. Mitt Romney
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. George R.R. Martin
I don’t like greed, I don’t like ignorance. I really don’t like anger. But I love love. David Crosby
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Matt Taibbi
We already have thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don’t have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed. Zygmunt Bauman
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. Gustave Flaubert
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. Jose Marti
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. E.A. Bucchianeri
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. Cyril Connolly
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
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Charles Kuralt
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. Harry S. Truman
A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It’s a desire for life. Jen Sincero
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice possessions are generally diminished by possession. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through. James O’Shaughnessy
The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn’t prepared to work for. Habeeb Akande
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Garrison Keillor
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. Aristophanes
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. Ben Stein
There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, Look, here’s what happened. Joe Biden
I’m fat because I’m greedy, and if my mind is fat it’s because I’m curious. Stephen Fry
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. Sepp Blatter
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread. Jennifer Donnelly
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. P. J. O’Rourke
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. Janwillem van de Wetering
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. Bodhidharma
I don’t wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I’m the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards. Charles Manson
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. Democritus
If we feel we cannot strike the right notes anymore and are not capable of forging ahead through the enticing pastures of our dreams, we must wisely put the treadmill on hold. So, let’s tame the inflated demands of greed for a while and look at our deeper self with compassion. Erik Pevernagie
Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never ending greed. The fight for corruption free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with what can I give spirit. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? Socrates
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. Abu Bakr
Getting money is not all a man’s business to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. Samuel Johnson
We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. Barack Obama
It’s true: greed has had a very bad press. I frankly don’t see anything wrong with greed. I think that the people who are always attacking greed would be more consistent with their position if they refused their next salary increase. I don’t see even the most Left Wing scholar in this country scornfully burning his salary check. In other words, greed simply means that you are trying to relieve the nature given scarcity that man was born with. Greed will continue until the Garden of Eden arrives, when everything is superabundant, and we don’t have to worry about economics at all. We haven’t of course reached that point yet; we haven’t reached the point where everybody is burning his salary increases, or salary checks in general. Murray N. Rothbard
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful or fun for that matter. Dave Mustaine
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market place. In you all is united which is needful for governing. Aristophanes
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed. Thomas Harris
A house built on greed cannot long endure. Edward Abbey
Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature. Masanobu Fukuoka
