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Greed Quotes

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

Good Greed You Know Say Talk

I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

Karen Joy Fowler

Friend Myself Best Greed Survival

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

Greed Anything Shareholders Laws

Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.

Johanna Siguroardottir

People Greed Consequences Way Nation

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

Fear Balance Greed Behavior You Two

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

Robert Herjavec

Business Value Small Think Greed

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

Hope Time Greed Survival Humanity

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Nature Ignorance Greed Hatred

Think of Donald Trump's personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as 'The Donald.' He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn't because he had attributes we admired.

Bullying Think Name Greed America

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Today Money Men Greed Anything Sell

What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.

Thinking Greed Trying Cry Most Form

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Impossible Greed Wall Street Two

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

Greed America Globalization Fault

With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed.

End Greed Rules Chains Global

If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.

Nouriel Roubini

Fear Risks People Greed View You

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

Richard Hammond

I Am Me Think Arrogance Greed Like

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

I Am Me Think Financial Greed Learn

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

Care Greed Selfishness Virtue Vice

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

Fun Bible Pride Self Greed Help

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

War Greed Political America Wall

Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

Paul Craig Roberts

Life Greed Fish Country Washington

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Greed Poverty Corporate Only Union

People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.

Geoffrey Canada

People Greed Wall Street Understand

The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.

God Power Children Name Greed More

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