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One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

You have to remove your human sentiment when it comes to greed and the accumulation of wealth.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

...people of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

You're not a road comic till you've watched Real Sex and American Greed alone in your hotel room.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. .

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.

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