Corruption,’ Jordan Belfort believes, ‘is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries – where enticement is hard to come by – even men in those circumstances have sex with other men and...

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God’s law and do wrong.” However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who...

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

I started toward the barn and was grateful that the wind was still. About halfway up the drive, my heart began to beat an irregular rhythm as I caught sight of Cricket coming toward me....

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed.

God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what...

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

And greed will breed harshness and cruelty.And wealth is a maze to confuse.Once a person is warm and well-suppered, how much of such wealth can they use?

Either the key to a man’s wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man’s heart is in his wallet. So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.

And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven.” Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable....

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day...

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred...

His good deeds came out. I pointed out in closing argument that that is inconsistent with greed. So I really believe justice was done.

The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle…

If anger were money, only a fool would greedily save it up. And a wise man would let it slip out of his heart like change slips out of his pants pockets.

If there are seven people present, myself included, and there is one pizza that’s cut into eight slices, then everyone should get one slice—except for me, who should get two slices, because I didn’t pay....

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

What is is plenty, but more is never enough.

We’ve had enough.” He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. “We’ve had a bellyful, in fact.””And like everyone who’s had enough,” said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, “he wants...

Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business...

Many great kings, emperors, saints and seers have left without taking anything. When you are born you don’t bring anything with you. Render service in divine awareness.

Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray...

The time approachesThat will with due decision make us knowWhat we shall say we have and what we owe.Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;Towards which, advance the war.They exit marching.

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. “It’s a bonny thing,” said he. “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every...

The best charity to serve humanity is just a person’s simplicity of living with his basic necessity

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we...

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market...

There is nothing more to chasing after wealth than the wastage of a person’s noble life for that which has no value. Instead he could have earned a high rank (in Paradise) and everlasting bliss,...

Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

This Mardi Gras is about more than greed. It’s a shout-out to everybody, and we’re coming back strong.

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money....

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

I want an Oompa-Loompa!’ screamed Veruca.

An abundance of money, alcohol, or power doesn’t change you, it simply reveals who you truly are.

Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

The best is the enemy of good.

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

Life without money seems to be incomplete,but money without life is absolutely useless.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

I row…a-uh-boat…with-uh-my teammates.” Superb! Just-uh-superb.

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He’s after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared...

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.