Quotes About Greed Is Bad

#1. Greed is bad because it's like unassimilated food in our system. If we eat more than our body requires, it will lead us to indigestion.

Hina Hashmi

#2. The greatest secret of life is never give up. Don't give up on yourself, your dreams and your family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

Alex Colville

#4. [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

#5. I want more. I want everything. I want you."
"Nathan ... "
"I'm not settling for less, Whitley," he said. "And neither should you.

Kody Keplinger

#6. You have no idea how strong my love is!

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Oscar Wilde

#8. There," she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to see."You're wrong! You don't know where your parents are, do you?" she turned and looked at Coraline. "Now," she said, "you're going to stay here for ever and always.

Neil Gaiman

#9. For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad strategy-and I will not tolerate it as president.

Barack Obama

#10. If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however, you must repent (do pratikraman) and turn it around, this will result in a high level of dharmadhyan [auspicious contemplation] .

Dada Bhagwan

#11. There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Jodi Picoult

#12. As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Rick Danko

#13. Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

Jane Addams

#14. Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

Dalai Lama

#15. Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed.

Cynthia Dill

#16. 'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, and here was a film about the richest man in the world who still couldn't be happy. Politically and sociologically, it was out of step.

Nicolas Roeg

#17. . A terrible battle between two wolves. One wolf is bad - pride, jealousy, greed. The other wolf is good - kindness, hope, truth. The child asks, 'Who will win?' The grandfather answers simply, 'The one you feed.

Tristan Bancks

#18. The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.

John Lasseter

#19. This could all be over by this time tomorrow. We find Alicia. We find Jill. Everything goes back to normal - well, whatever passes for normal with us.

Richelle Mead

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#23. When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Jonathan Swift

#24. Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Search is an unsolved problem.

Marissa Mayer

#26. Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.

Norman Mailer

#27. The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Nigel Farage

#28. I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

Lee Kuan Yew

#29. 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

#30. If you ever have to sacrifice something good, have faith that God will reward you with something GREAT

Rita Zahara

#31. Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

Tom DeLonge

#32. Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#33. It is greed that makes us human as it could be for good or bad.

Zaman Ali

#34. I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

Jean Rhys

#35. Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost.

Philip Yancey

#36. You may have had someone ask you, "What can I do for you?" Instead of postponing the offer by responding with "I'll let you know," seize the opportunity with a specific response. What's even better is when your answer benefits the both of you.

Lisa A. Mininni

#37. Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person.

Bill Engvall