Top 100 Greed Money Quotes
#1. Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#2. [A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it.
[Man and the Gospel (1865)]
Thomas Guthrie
#3. People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.
Trevor D. Richardson
#4. I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
Thomas Sowell
#5. Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.
Thomas Piketty
#7. Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.
Philip Slater
#9. During anger, the parmanus (subatomic particles) are fiery and fierce and during greed, there are parmanus (subatomic particles) of attraction towards money.
Dada Bhagwan
#10. They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.
Richard Kadrey
#11. Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing ...
They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.
Charlie Huston
#12. Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?
Karen Essex
#13. Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#14. Fear and, to a lesser extent, greed are what make money move.
Michael Lewis
#15. MONEY
There are people who believe that money is God and there are others who believe that money is the devil. Both are in ignorance. Money is merely a medium of exchange. Do not compare this medium to God, dirt or devil. It is the greed or hatred of man that labels money as 'good' or 'bad'.
Sirshree
#16. The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
Iain Banks
#17. All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.
Thomas Piketty
#18. The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.
A.J. Darkholme
#19. When Greed makes to money number one priority, it trust nobody
Kishore Bansal
#20. Which epitaph would you choose for your grave-stone: "He made lots of money." or "He saved the Earth"? And don't think I'm being sarcastic, because for once, I'm not. We're all going to die. What will be your legacy? Smaug-loads of money? or Saving the Earth? It's your choice.
Steve Bivans
#21. If you always try to measure yourself with
money ... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you
keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.
Steven J. Carroll
#22. But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Little Richard
#23. Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation.
Muhammad Al-Tirmidhi
#24. Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.
A.E. Samaan
#25. Greed is when we love money more than God and do not love God with our money.
Julian Hardyman
#26. Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#27. Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.
Joseph Sobran
#28. Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
Karl Marx
#29. Dozens of days, experiences, and encounters have set me on a path I never dreamed possible.
Carlos Wallace
#30. Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
Charles Dickens
#33. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
#34. Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. Money isn't everything, but you'll never convince money.
Marty Rubin
#36. As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money, of success, comfort, materialism, pleasure, sexual immorality, self-worship, self-obsession. The sacred increasingly disappeared, and the profane took its place.
Jonathan Cahn
#37. If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
Henry A. Wallace
#38. Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.
Steven J. Carroll
#39. The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.
Benjamin Graham
#40. You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.
Bernard Madoff
#41. The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters
Mario Puzo
#42. We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.
[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]
Alexander Pope
#43. Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.
Juvenal
#44. Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
Thomas Carlyle
#45. There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
Terry Pratchett
#46. To make your Opinion Count,
you have to do something more
than just making Money.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#47. Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.
Danielle LaPorte
#48. Money is like a child - rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
Lemony Snicket
#49. Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#51. In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#52. The fact that they viewed their wealth as a result of their own hands, without any honor other than lip service being given to the god that had blessed them, gave perfect openings to the liars slithering up their legs.
Lee Goff
#53. Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.
Lawrence Reed
#54. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
Henry A. Wallace
#55. The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly golden opportunities do not arise to benefit oneself, but in order to benefit others.
Etienne De L'Amour
#56. New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#57. I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.
James Hamilton-Paterson
#58. I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.
Chloe Sevigny
#59. Money is that dear thing which,
if you're not careful, you can squander
your whole life thinking of ...
Mary Jo Salter
#60. Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
Barbara Kingsolver
#61. There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
Warren Buffett
#62. The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle ...
Garrett McCoy
#63. Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.
Robert Loggia
#64. Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.
Siddharth Katragadda
#65. Kittu was fascinated that such a technically minded person could be so happy groping blindly toward big piles of money. "Jim Clark has a clarity of vision that is prompted by the purest form of greed," says Kittu.
Michael Lewis
#66. Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.
Michael Connelly
#67. Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?
Stephen King
#68. Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#69. This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.
Lars Ulrich
#70. We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little
Dean Griffiths
#71. The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!
In all honesty, hate has no fate.
But greed does it needs money, its faith.
Zarina Bibi
#72. Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have.
Hiromu Arakawa
#73. The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.
Gerry Spence
#74. 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.
Jason Newsted
#75. There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.
Wallace Stegner
#76. It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.
Robert Redford
#77. Motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#78. The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets.
He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
P.G. Wodehouse
#79. I knew in my bones that while it could do good, the money could also do harm. Greed burns everything on its path.
Gregoire Delacourt
#80. Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.
Steven Magee
#81. We have had enough of the old men and the money-counters!" And people further off took up the cry: "Up Bowman, and down with the moneybags,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#82. To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Dorothy L. Sayers
#83. Life without money seems to be incomplete,but money without life is absolutely useless
ABC
#84. Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.
Nancy Dunnan
#85. Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?
Mark Hanna
#86. I fear just one thing : Money! Greed
was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus
Mother Teresa
#87. They overdid everything, especially their greed for money. All three generations of Rumanian Hohenzollerns had a passion for wealth and were incredibly stingy besides, Carol more so than the others.
R.G. Waldeck
#88. And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat; and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!
Aristotle.
#89. A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?
H.M. Forester
#90. Some people are only "believers" because they want God to give them things; a thrill, money, spiritual gifts etc. but they never think twice about what THEY can give to God. They are Christian parasites, always wanting more, rather than Christian servants, who are always willing to give.
Lisa Bedrick
#91. They are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe - you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.
Alexander McCall Smith
#92. Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
Dennis E. Adonis
#93. He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.
Aldous Huxley
#94. The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
Stanley Hauerwas
#95. In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
Marya Mannes
#96. Didn't we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs - - by whatever name or rationale - - were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?
Ray Bourhis
#97. I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.
Semir Zeki
#98. When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#99. You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.
Saint Augustine
#100. Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?
Lionel Fisher
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