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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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