All Quotes By Tag: Greed

“Greed is your god, Kaz.”He almost laughed at that. “No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”

“I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man”

“Man will never realize that you can’t eat money because, sadly, money is his answer to everything.”

“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”

“If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

“I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth… for being human. The rawness of being human delights me.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”

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