Best Greedy Quotes

#1. It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

Hesiod

#2. As the farmer said, I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.

Laurence J. Peter

#3. Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

Camille Paglia

#4. Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

Eliot Wigginton

#5. I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

Dana Snyder

#6. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world - and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

Penn Jillette

#7. Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

Elise Blackwell

#8. Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

Sonia Rumzi

#9. [the Devil] ... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it ...

Jonathan Edwards

#10. When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

Patrick Carney

#11. The networks at their worst (were) at once greedy and timid.

David Halberstam

#12. If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

Jonah Hill

#14. But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have lost it, remaining, even after the very traces of it have vanished, as greedy as ever of admiration.

George MacDonald

#15. When the world decides to stop being greedy ... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

Jess Glynne

#16. I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

Kenneth Branagh

#17. This isn't a negotiation. I want to make you cum, Lily. I am being very nice to you. It would be in your best interest to take my gift as it is and not be greedy.

Teresa Mummert

#18. My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

Rick Riordan

#19. George McGovern, for all his mistakes ... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon,

Hunter S. Thompson

#20. Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Donna Leon

#21. Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.

Cornelia Funke

#22. My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

Peter Cundall

#23. Tell me why one is the best."
"One is enough. It's unique. It's a chance, an opportunity, an experience. One is never greedy. One is independent. One can change everything.

Jewel E. Ann

#24. She'd been an easy mark, so greedy for love that she had given the best of her own heart without stopping to consider what she received in exchange.

Emily Croy Barker

#25. I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Keke Palmer

#26. I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.

Danny Meyer

#27. We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was the work of the best and brightest of the entire European continent. They were greedy.

Paul Johnson

#28. I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Harry Chapin

#29. The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Publilius Syrus

#30. Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

Warren Buffett

#31. Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Gore Vidal

#32. In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy.
In always wanting perfection, you become angry.
In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#33. After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

Gunter Grass

#34. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Sidney Sheldon

#35. When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

Mike Tyson

#36. The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#37. 5126We are a mongrel race, our past a history of tangles, our sources obscure, our rowdy upbringing full of greedy, short-sighted empires and cruel, wasteful diasporas.

Iain M. Banks

#38. Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Ann Cotton

#39. I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

Craig Kilborn

#40. Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "but don't bother about the bread, please.

A.A. Milne

#41. [A]n unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.

Isaac Asimov

#42. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

Pat Robertson

#43. It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.

Dennis E. Adonis

#44. Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

Rick Riordan

#45. Carrowicus much drunkicus or Hot-assicus in my greedy handsicus.

Kresley Cole

#46. Don't rush your legs to feed your greed. They will rush to judge you as the greedy one.

Auliq Ice

#47. 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

#48. The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place where she could take the next step: ask for some clarifying word; some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

Toni Morrison

#49. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt

Hunter S. Thompson

#50. Heat roared within him. Greedy heat. He wanted her ...
She was in over her head, and it seemed ... so was he.

Erin Kellison

#51. No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Thomas More

#52. Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed ...

Kage Baker

#53. How could we even begin to disarm greed and envy? Perhaps by being much less greedy and envious ourselves; perhaps by resisting the temptation of letting our luxuries become needs; and perhaps by even scrutinising our needs to see if they cannot be simplified and reduced.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#54. I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

Caprice Bourret

#55. Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

Jack Gilbert

#56. It is the untold story of this war and it is the story of every war ever fought. Greedy men seeing someone weaker with something they want.

C.C. Humphreys