Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.
~ Michael Moore
For greed all nature is too little.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~ P. J. O'rourke
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
~ Ben Shapiro
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
~ Andrew Weil
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
~ Philip Roth
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
~ Niall Ferguson
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
~ Mwai Kibaki
While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
~ Andrew Lo
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~ Charles Kuralt
We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.
~ Simon Winchester
A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.
We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'
~ Gene Roddenberry
If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.
~ Ron Moody
Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.
~ Andy Stanley
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
~ Little Richard
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
~ Bodhidharma
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
~ Pamela Meyer
I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
~ David Crosby
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
~ Abu Bakr
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
~ Nina Simone
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?
~ Milton Friedman
We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.
~ Tom Brokaw
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
