Greed Quotations | Page 3

We're talking about greed, greed, greed -- greed for money, that's what drove you.

Two emotions rule the stock market ? one is greed and one is fear. In March 2000, greed was extreme, the market was at record highs and people were yelling 'where has this gain been all my life?' But by February, early March of this year (2001), fear had reached a an extremely high level, reaching a crescendo on March 22.

What I've encountered is a culture of greed and deception.

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system.

As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of Javanese and Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

everybody clammed up. That word spoke about money and greed and all sorts of things that no one wanted to talk about.

Corporate scandals, equity market problems, a lack of transparency, a lot of greed -- it was not just the Dow falling, it was all of these things that make people very, very nervous.

Continuously, day and night, they are gripped by greed and deluded by doubt. The slaves labor in slavery, carrying the loads upon their heads. That humble being who serves the Guru is put to work by the Lord in His Home.

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

The world we exist in is fueled by power, greed, by the lust to have more, ... It's a world that's run by the power to contaminate others.

The right price has nothing to do with greed. It has to do with demand.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and greed murdered New Orleans,

a small group driven by Liberal interests and personal greed almost effortlessly breached walls built to separate politicians from the treasury.

Alas! We are ready to commit a great sin by striving to slay our kinsmen because of greed for the pleasures of the kingdom.

Alien smuggling organizations are driven by greed with little regard to the health, well-being, dignity or motivation of their human cargo. Attacking and dismantling these criminal groups is critical to securing our borders and ensuring compliance with our immigration and customs laws.

Your greed was so great that you allowed your wife to go to prison!

This isn't a matter of greed -- this is a matter of survival.

This is the celebration of a few brave and courageous souls, men and women, whose personal sacrifice and commitment to justice was free of malice, greed and self-promotion.

The whole holdout was strictly business, and for me it was about getting the opportunity to retire as a Steeler, ... It was not about money or greed, it was about me wanting to retire as a Steeler and to have that chance to retire as a Steeler. Thats all I can really ask for.

This case presents a deeply troubling picture of greed and deception at a large, publicly held company,

They say the markets are driven by fear and greed. We're certainly not in the greed part of the equation anymore.

All of it made me think about this book I want to write. It's about greed.

America has been knocked-up with democracys mutant love child. She has finally borne the demonic spawn of greed, narcissism and civilian indifference. (Congrats on a second term Mr Bush).

This Mardi Gras is about more than greed. It's a shout-out to everybody, and we're coming back strong.

it's about workers' right to job security and a decent standard of living, versus Telus's unrestricted corporate greed.

It really comes down to greed and deception and finger-pointing,

For me it isn't about the money or the greed, it's always been about the medals.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Desire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal), one should start on the path of sacrifice.

It's had everything to do with personal greed and how much money they were going to make on the fishery.

I want to put all my efforts into the Commonwealth Games. The World Indoors would be more of a greed thing. When people see dollar signs, it allows them to think about that rather than the bigger picture.

They were showing bad faith ... It was clearly an indication of the greed involved.

They've turned their backs on the springs. They've been selling out for short term greed and development demands. And so we're taking it right back to the voters and to tell them, once again, Barton Springs is critical to our community, and we're serious about protecting them before it's too late.

I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares.

If there was a simple acronym for greed, I'd use that. There's a lot of money at stake.

His good deeds came out. I pointed out in closing argument that that is inconsistent with greed. So I really believe justice was done.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

Hopefully it will affect somebody and will inspire something. I'm not trying to manipulate what people's interpretation of the movie is. But I think that for me it was about greed and lusting after this secular world. And I'm not trying to be pretentious, but if it can be an explanation of that world, then great.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

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.

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

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

White folks' greed runs a world in need.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

The frequency of anger attracts the frequency of anger, the frequency of greed attracts the frequency of greed, and so on. This is the law of attraction. Negativity attracts negativity, just as love attracts love. Therefore, the world of an angry person is filled with angry people, the world of a greedy person is filled with greedy people, and a loving person lives in a world of loving people.

He who is greedy is always in want.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.

You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.

I mean people, people don't get ,they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

The covetous man is ever in want.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children?

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

If greed turns tribes into these kinds of people . . . then money is bad for them, ... They are not true Native Americans.

I don't see how it can jump the way it's jumping. I think there's a little greed. I think they're taking advantage of the situation down south.

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

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

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

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 are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.

Don’t let the dark clouds of greed confuse you

But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are extinguished (the tigers, the leopard frogs, the plunging dolphin flukes), flicker and are extinguished, by us, by us, we gaze and gaze. Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There enough women are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.