Greed Sayings and Quotes


Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.     
Erich Fromm
Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.
Andy Stanley
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.     
Mahatma Gandhi
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.     
Eartha Kitt
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
Vanna Bonta
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me      
Brian Tracy
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful
Warren Buffett
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.     
Maya Angelou
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.     
Thoreau
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
Mark Twain
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.     
Kierkegaard
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury
Charlie Chaplin
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
For greed all nature is too little.     
Seneca
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.     
Friedrich Engels
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
Little Richard
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Julian Casablancas
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B.C. Forbes
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.     
Mason Cooley
A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.     
Swiss Proverb
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.     
Oscar Wilde
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
Janwillem Van De Wetering
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.     
Lau Tzu
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.     
Thomas Jefferson
Big mouthfuls often choke.
Italian Proverb
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.     
Arthur Schopenhauer
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.     
Charles Caleb Colton
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.     
Frederick Keonig
A greedy father has thieves for children
Serbian Proverb
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all     
Democritus
He who is greedy is always in want
Horace
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Unkown
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia Plath
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Bette Davis
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.     
Thomas Carlyle
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.     
Saint Augustine
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.     
Henry George
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver
Ayn Rand
None of the quick fixes to the world's problems are going to work, unless we change the dream of greed and scarcity that the world is dreaming.
John Perkins
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.     
Bertrand Russell
All the money you make will never buy back your soul.     
Bob Dylan
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Horace

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