I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

Greed is a little bit more than enough.

When everything gets too much, give some away

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you’ve gained.

Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

Civilization on Earth planet was equated with selfishness and greed; those people who lived in a civilized state exploited those who did not. There were shortages of vital commodities on Earth planet, and the people...

Quick gratification of desires, often lead to low stratifications in life

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

the breaking of the interest slavery of productive work in all professional fields will grant it the primary position due to it. Money will once again be returned to its sole appropriate role of being...

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that...

Don’t ever feel sad about who you are. Don’t wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you’re poor. Look! Everybody’s poor, i discovered it when i realized...

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain,...

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they...

Human greed feeds a creed.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Maybe we need to reflect on the fact that the patience of God always outruns the impatience of our greed, and that His love always outweighs the greed that outweighs our love for Him.

I thought back to all the times I’d slept with a girl and not thought twice about it and my gut ached. If a girl doesn’t safeguard herself, who will? I’d always had the mentality...

I saw him do a No More Potatoes Dance, after he saw me stuff the last of the mashed potatoes in my pocket.

The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential;...

Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that’s all that seems to count. He’s rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with...

The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.

Didn’t we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs – – by whatever name or rationale – – were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?

They’d taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom...

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

Now, he’d loved money for money’s sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Mirrors on the ceiling,The pink champagne on iceAnd she said ‘We are all just prisoners here, of our own device’And in the master’s chambers,They gathered for the feastThey stab it with their steely knives,But they...

Marty, my mother used to say “Never get greedy with God.” I think what she meant was “Don’t dare ask for more if you already have what you need.”

The most chronic heart disease is caused by having greediness in your heart. Go for check ups regularly and learn how to swallow those lumpy pills of generousity. Be kind and be healthy

This core concept is so fundamental to her life that she even had a custom grand piano made where the keys aren’t black and white—they’re green and red. As a side note, do you think...

We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into...

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

Hitler’s appeal to greed and sloth, to increase German prosperity without requiring Germans to work for it, led into the Holocaust because confiscating Jewish property seemed to make sense to the greedy.

Behold, the Spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love!Every seed is awakened and so has all animal life. It is...

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th’ election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th’ occurents, more and less,Which have solicited – the rest is...

There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?

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...