Greed Quotes, Sayings about greed
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?
- Brian Tracy
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Greed is like filling a cup with a hole at the bottom, it will never fill.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- Socrates
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
- Publilius Syrus
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- Oscar Wilde
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
- Gautama Buddha
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
- Janwillem Van De Wetering
I’m fat because I’m greedy, and if my mind is fat it’s because I’m curious.
- Stephen Fry
Don’t be greedy, and don’t try to take away everyone’s fortune for yourself. You won’t be able to have it all when you die. You can’t take it with you.
Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Samuel Johnson
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful.
- Warren Buffett
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
- Democritus
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
- Harry S. Truman
I want to be rich enough to realize that I cant buy happiness.
Fraud is the daughter of greed.
- Jonathan Gash
For greed, all nature is too little.
- Seneca
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
- Mason Cooley