192 quotes found
“Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing They use it to make sure the peo...”
“Some needs superseded our own wellbeing, and we let ourselves be destroyed by greed and results of our own careless mistakes. We pretend not to notice, the things that meaninglessly deplete us away.”
“We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone elses misfortune.”
“There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.”
“Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the mone...”
“Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.”
“The Only Good Greed Is Greed For Enlightening Experiences”
“I disagree. You want to bring back someone that you've lost. You might want money. Maybe you want women. Or, you might want to protect the world. These are all common things people want. Things tha...”
“Brad Green, almost overnight, became the poster boy for the common Wall Street tale - proving once again that greed, most definitely, kills. Giving away about 99% of his fortune was also front page...”
“I liked his attention. But I also felt like there was something sick and wrong about it. Like it might make me sick later. I thought of my grandmother, my father's mother. How when I used to visit ...”
“Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth...”
“I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.”
“The greedy bastard, thought Weint. He knows perfectly well that twenty shekels is the going rate for a female household slave of my age.”
“Much wants more and loses all.”
“The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means...”
“Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?”
“I cant do that, he said, exhaling sharply and staring out the glass into the street.Why not?His face softened. I need his money.Spencer looked at me and I couldnt help but stare back. We were all i...”
“I ran up the stairs, shedding pieces of my suit as I went, determined for a shower, resolute in washing away what Id just done, who I really was but I was certain there was nothing that could clean...”
“In fifteen hundred years someone will figure out a way to squeeze black juice out of the yellow sand, and that will get everyone very excited. Some people who were rich already will get a lot riche...”
“The world is old and full of lessons. We will not lack for examples. We only have to look around carefully, earnestly, so we can learn and realize that success, to be genuine, must not be propelled...”
