An old Cherokee told his grandson: “My son, there’s a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It’s anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is Good. It’s joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness & truth.”
Boy: “Grandfather, which wolf wins?”
Old man: “The one you feed.”
Fraud is the daughter of greed.
– Jonathan Gash
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
– Mahatma Gandhi
People are always looking for more and forget about what they already have.
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.
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.
– Bhagavad Gita
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
– Mason Cooley
A man can be cured of his lust, but a fool can never be cured of his greed.
It is possible to satisfy your need. It is impossible to satisfy your greed.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”
– Brian Tracy
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
People who receive everything, appreciate nothing.
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
– Janwillem Van De Wetering
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
– Erich Fromm
A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.
– Swiss Proverb
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
– Albert Einstein
The less you desire the happier you are. The more you desire the greedier you become.
– Dr T.P.Chia
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
There’s enough on this planet for everyone’s needs but not for everyone’s greed.
– Mahatma Gandhi
People are never happy with what they have. They want what they had. Or what others have.
To greed, all nature is insufficient.
– Seneca
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
– Lau Tzu
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
– Harry S. Truman
There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.
– Tulsi Das
Greed breeds envy which in turn breeds destruction.
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
– Sam Levenson
He who is greedy is always in want.
– Horace
When you get little, you want more. When you get more, you desire even more. But when you lose it, you realize little was enough.
You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.
– Vernon Howard
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
– Publilius Syrus
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
– Julian Casablancas
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
– Oscar Wilde
For greed, all nature is too little.
– Seneca
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful.
– Warren Buffett
A life of excess is not a good life. Excess of anything leads to perversion and depression.
– Sadhguru
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
– Democritus
To be richer, happier, and freer, all you need to do is want less.
– Francine Jay
I want to be rich enough to realize that I can’t buy happiness.
Every single time I have seen an entitled person welsh on a commitment, their excuse, verbalized or not, is that the provider didn’t give them enough.
– Alan Robert Neal
People are always looking for more and forget about what they already have.
We live in a society that breeds discontent by defining success as bigger homes, nicer cars, and fuller closets. Gratitude is the cure.
– Joshua Becker
Of course, achievement gives joy and excitement, oh boy! But when need becomes greed. To misery, this will lead.
Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
– Samuel Johnson
Greed usually comes from deadly sin impatience. Because we hate to wait for anything, we prefer to pursue several goals at the same time. Multitasking has really hit it off with mind setting.
– Sumesh Nair
It is greed that makes us human as it could be for good or bad.
When we let our greed become our need, we can never be happy indeed!
– RVM
Entitled is another word for greedy.
– Alan Robert Neal
Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed cuts through, clarifies, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
– Gordon Gekko
We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
– Logan Pearsall
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
– Maya Angelou
Those aspiring to reach the peaks of affluence must be cautioned against sliding into the pits of effluent.
– Boghos L. Artinian
People who say they want “abundance” do not truly appreciate what they already have. They only pretend they do as a strategy for getting more.
– Alan Robert Neal
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
– Honore de Balzac
The covetous man is ever in want.
– Horace
Do not catch too many fish at the same time, otherwise you’ll lose them all.
I’m fat because I’m greedy, and if my mind is fat it’s because I’m curious.
– Stephen Fry