Greed Quotes - Page 23

• Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?

  Mark Hanna

  Money

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• It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?

  Abraham Polonsky

  Cheating, Brother, Hate

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• This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Money, Wall, 4th Of July

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• When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

  Sue Sanders

  Doctors, Dying, Physicians

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• I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so that they can actually be in a fiduciary capacity where the artist comes first or the client, whoever the client happens to be.

  Shep Gordon

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: collider.com

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• Money is that dear thing which,
  if you're not careful, you can squander
  your whole life thinking of.

  Mary Jo Salter

  Money, Thinking, Whole Life

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• There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  James Earl Jones

  Nausea, Lines, Fifty Shades

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• America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Hard Work, America

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• Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Men, Knaves

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.355

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• Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Hands, Vices

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.418, OUP Oxford

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• My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

  John le Carre

  Country, Philosophy, Years

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• But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
  Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth
  And the filth in the heart of Man--
  Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
  than that of the Sun.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

  Thomas More

  Two, Evil, Justice

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

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• The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Thinking, Bourgeoisie

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• ... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Investment Success, Names

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• Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

  Walter Schloss

  Judgement, Investing, Values

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• The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

  Walter Schloss

  Emotional, Investing, Appeals

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• Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

  Walter Schloss

  Connections, Investing, Emotion

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• There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

  Tulsidas

  Powerful, Evil, Lust

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• I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Children, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Moral, Sensuality, Intellect

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 20, 1895.

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• It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• They who in folly or mere greed
  Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
  Borrow our language now and bid
  Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Law, Poetry, Causes

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.335, Stanford University Press

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• White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Character, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.124, 谷月社

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• In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

  I. L. Peretz

  Hate, Might, Force

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