Memorable Quotes About Greed

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"Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it shrinks to a morsel."
Susan Orleans
"The greedy bring ruin upon their households, but the one who hates bribes will live."
Proverbs 15:27, The Bible
"Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue."
Andy Stanley
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic."
Peter Drucker
"Greed divides us; generosity unites us."
Lao Tzu
"A greedy man is a destitute man at heart."
Unknown
"The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least."
Unknown
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"Greed is an addiction that takes from others."
Unknown
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
Montesquieu
"The more you have, the more you want. It is a never-ending cycle."
Unknown
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Bertrand Russell
"An ounce of greed can overshadow a ton of virtue."
Unknown
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
William Shakespeare
"Envy and greed are the wind and the waves that drown a man."
Unknown
"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."
P.T. Barnum
"To desire wealth is not wrong. It's the want for more that makes greed treacherous."
Unknown
"The man who dies rich, dies disgraced."
Andrew Carnegie
"The more you give, the more you have. Greed takes away from the spirit."
Unknown
"There is enough on this planet for everyone's needs, but not enough for everyone's greed."
Gandhi
"Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there."
Will Smith
"Wealth is a means, not an end."
Unknown
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"The excessive pursuit of wealth can lead to moral decay."
Unknown
"Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it fills him."
Janwillem van de Wetering
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
Elie Wiesel
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Greed, like the love of money, is a sin; but it is a sin of the heart."
Mark Twain
"There's a fine line between greed and ambition."
Steve Jobs
"The desire for possessions is a great mass of disease, and avarice is a great enemy of the soul."
Cicero
"Avarice is the sign of a weak mind."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Greed allows you to fly but it also ties you down."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The greedy man is always in want."
Horace
"Greed is a strange, strange sin."
Philip K. Dick
"The measure of wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."
Anonymous
"Nothing is more destructive of creative potential than greed."
Wendy Kaminer
"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as of torture."
Iris Murdoch
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"The hunger for wealth is the root of many evils."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Do not let greed, or any other desire, take you over."
Buddha
"Greed is a disease that eats away at your soul."
Anonymous
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
Honore de Balzac
"Greed brings misery."
Anonymous
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
James MacDonald
"Greed is a plague; the more you drink, the thirstier you become."
Proverb
"The greatest danger is that you will get what you want."
Anonymous
"The person who is truly wealthy is one who does not desire anything."
Lao Tzu
"Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it, it gets bigger."
Joni Mitchell
"The greedy person is a poor person, since money can never satisfy his desires."
Lao Tzu
"The antidote to greed is not wealth; it is wisdom."
Zig Ziglar
"Greed often drives us to a desperate place."
David Suzuki
"The desire for wealth and power is human, but the greed that seeks to possess everything is not."
Viktor E. Frankl
"There is no such thing as enough wealth."
Seneca the Younger
"The more you have, the more you want; the less you have, the less you need."
B. C. Forbes
"It is when we think we have enough that we begin to lose everything."
Jarod Kintz
"Greed is a strange, strange thing. It makes people act against their own interests."
Laura Hillenbrand
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
Lao Tzu
"The insatiable hunger for more wealth is like a bottomless pit."
Ravi Zacharias
"We can never get enough of what we don’t really need."
Bob Bennett
"To be greedy is to live in the unreal world, to be lost in fantasy."
Eckhart Tolle
"The greed for money is like an addiction and leads to loss of integrity."
Kiran Bedi
"Avarice is an animal vice; it has no other satisfaction than to feel its own power."
Seneca the Younger
"Greed is a perpetual craving for more, more, more."
Gerry Spence
"In the end, greed takes us nowhere."
C.S. Lewis
"Greed is itself a form of poverty."
Joe Hill
"While we are financially secure, we can become spiritually bankrupt through greed."
T. Harv Eker
"Out of the greed comes blame and dissatisfaction."
Jeanette Winterson
"Greed is like a giant vacuum cleaner, sucking up everything in its path."
Chris S. O'Leary
"Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it pushes you further away from a God."
Bono
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
Mark Twain
"Greed is a strange, strange sin. It is the one that looks decent; it wears the cloak of a 'business-like' attitude."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Success is not about how much you have, but what you do with what you have. Greed takes the good and reinforces it."
Robert Fulghum
"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
Cristina Calderón
"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are."
Mother Teresa
"Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a communication issue."
Adam Smith
"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
Henry David Thoreau
"The fault of greed is not that it wants too much, but that it is satisfied with too little."
G.K. Chesterton
"He who is greedy is always in want."
Horace
"When greed leads to a lack of accountability and sector state regulatory capture, the economy vanishes."
William M. Daley
"The fire of greed burns with increasing intensity."
Lao Tzu
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."
Erich Fromm
"A man should look for what he needs inside himself; not outside."
Albert Einstein
"It's really hard to look at the world and say to yourself that greed isn't a major factor."
Larry Fink
"Greed is a disease, and those afflicted need healing."
Rev. Jesse Jackson
"The insatiable greed of man is the worst enemy of all."
Mahavira
"If you will make a compromise, it is greed."
Dale Carnegie
"While greed leads to a dualistic mindset, generosity promotes a universal value."
Brahma Kumaris
"The worst thing you can do is to die with potential."
Harvey Mackay
"Greed is like a poison that destroys humanity from within."
Anne Frank
"People need to be reminded that money is not everything. It does not define who we are."
Mr. Rogers
"The more we chase after wealth, the more the world slips away from our grasp."
Buddha
"Greed is a bad counselor."
Pindar
"Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it sucks you dry."
Jewell Parker Rhodes
"The love of money is the root of all evil."
1 Timothy 6:10
"Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue."
Andy Stanley
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Epictetus
"The greedy man is like a barren tree that bears no fruit."
African Proverb
"There are no pockets in a shroud."
Unknown
"Greed is a strange animal, and it is hungry always."
Sandy D. Jones
"The cure for greed is the ability to give."
Tony O'Connor
"He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing."
Epicurus
"The more you have, the more you want. Greed is insatiable."
Bernard Cornfeld
"Greed is an imperfection that drives us to expect more from ourselves and others than we have the right to expect."
Alfred A. Montapert
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
Will Rogers
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
Benjamin Franklin
"If you want to know what a man is really like, observe how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
J.K. Rowling
"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer."
Julian Assange
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"Greed takes root in a quiet mind."
Unknown
"The avarice of mankind is such that they will always be glad to see a multitude of men who act with greater virtue than themselves."
Jean de La Fontaine
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
Seneca
"Money often costs too much."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Greed is the enemy of contentment."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."
Muhammad Ali
"He who dies with the most toys is still dead."
Unknown
"It is better to be satisfied with little than to be greedy and get nothing."
Buddha
"The greedy man is like a leaky bucket; he can never fill it."
Proverb
"Greed, like the sin of sloth, takes these endless pathways, forever ambitious but never achieving."
David Mitchell
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