Greed Quotes

Most popular greed quotes

It's not greed that drives the world, but envy. - Warren Buffett quote.
It's not greed that drives the world, but envy.

envy

The earth has enough for every man's need but not for every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
The earth has enough for every man's need but not for every man's greed.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
— The Bible—I Timothy 6:10

biblical evil money

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

society

Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be.

sorrow

No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. - Livy quote.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

luxury

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our goals.

environment luxury

Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.

witty

Accursed greed for gold,
To what dost thou not drive the heart of man. - Virgil quote.
Accursed greed for gold,
To what dost thou not drive the heart of man.

gold

How is it possible, that the love of gain and the lust of domination should render the human mind so callous to every principle of honor, generosity, and benevolence? - Abigail Adams quote.
How is it possible, that the love of gain and the lust of domination should render the human mind so callous to every principle of honor, generosity, and benevolence?

lust

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful. - Warren Buffett quote.
A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. - Cyril Connolly quote.
Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Not even a Harvard School of Business can turn greed into a science. - W.E.B Du Bois quote.
Not even a Harvard School of Business can turn greed into a science.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. - Erich Fromm quote.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
Christmas, that annual celebration of parental guilt and juvenile greed. - P. D. James quote.
Christmas, that annual celebration of parental guilt and juvenile greed.
Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. - Seneca quote.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine. - Jennifer Stone quote.
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.
Lust for profit has no limit, no conscience, and no virtue.