38+ Best Greed Quotes & Sayings

best greed quotes & sayings

These are inspirational, motivational, wise, and funny greed quotes, sayings, and proverbs that inspire us. See more quotes by topic on MindBootstrap.

Best Greed quotes

 

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. ~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue. ~Andy Stanley

 

Greed is a bottomless bit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ~Erich Fromm

 

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~Edgar Allan Poe

 

The richest of the rich is one who is not a prisoner to greed. ~Imam Ali (As)

 

As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering. ~Rusty Eric

 

It is possible to satisfy your need. It is impossible to satisfy your greed. ~Dr T.P.Chia

 

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ~Abu Bakr

 

Greed has no boundaries. ~Aristotle

 

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy. ~Cathryn Louis

 

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. ~John D. Rockefeller

 

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men. ~Leigh Bardugo

 

Fraud is the daughter of greed. ~Jonathan Gash

 

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. ~Mahatma Gandhi

 

But men are so full of greed today, they’ll sell anything for a little piece of money. ~Little Richard, American Musician

 

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. ~Eartha Kitt

 

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth. ~William Faulkner

 

I think greed sometimes gets the best of everybody. ~Alan Haft

 

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity. ~Joy Harjo

 

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. ~Albert Einstein

 

Greed is permanent slavery. ~Ali ibn Abi Talib

 

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed. ~Jim John

 

I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but to greed to want to take somebody else’s money. ~Thomas Sowell

 

Love is blind, and greed insatiable. ~Chinese Proverbs

 

Sail on, sail on, o’ might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on. ~Leonard Cohen

 

It’s our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil. ~Amish Tripathi

 

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns. ~Marc Estrin

 

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. ~Billy Graham

 

Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy. ~Steven Pinker

 

Greed quotes from the bible

 

Then Jesus said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” ~Luke 12:15

 

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways. ~Proverbs 28:6 (ESV)

 

Greed is good quotes

 

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit. ~Michal Douglas

 

I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. ~Ivan Boesky

 

Greed is good to most economists. It’s greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow. ~Rebecca M. Blank

 

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever. ~Bret Easton Ellis

 

In a world of lunacy, Violence, stupidity, greed…it is a good life. ~T.S. Eliot

 

Greed is good until it affects someone’s Need…~Aadesh Kumar Sriwastava

 

Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward – like the Koch brothers – to say, “You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I’m going to lose a fortune!” ~Bill Maher

 

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