Quotes tagged ‘Greed’

“I’ll tell you why I don’t put as much value on money. I genuinely believe I would rather waste money than time. Time is the only currency I think of that is actually worth anything with any real value. Time is the only thing that exists. You don’t lie on your deathbed going, 'I wish I just made a mi…”

— James Corden, amazon.com

“Trust those who are greedy for money a thousand times more than those who are greedy for credentials.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com

“Trump now means greed, selfishness and ugly. So sad.”

— Barbara Bush, usatoday.com

“Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.”

— Phil McGraw, amazon.com

“Corinne: [while riding in a helicopter] This is the Drax estate now. Everything you see belongs to Mr. Drax. James Bond: He owns a lot, doesn't he? Corinne: What he doesn't own, he doesn't want.”

— Christopher Wood, James Bond, Roger Moore, imdb.com

“[from trailer] Look at those greedy little gift monsters.”

— Michael LeSieur, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, Dr. Seuss, Grinch (voice), Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“Me, I want what’s coming to me. The world, chico, and everything in it.”

— Oliver Stone, Tony Montana, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“For children who were never allowed to grow up, greed isn’t the only motive for killing.”

— Brian Nelson, Takeshi Kovacs, Joel Kinnaman, imdb.com

“Integrity, my friend, is the shield to greed and vanity.”

— Ryan Farley, Del, Esai Morales, imdb.com

“Ambition powered by love is more potent than ambition powered by greed.”

— Jordan Bach, twitter.com

“Richard: He may have forgotten your turn to Warwick, but I have not. George: And I have not forgotten that you've got Warwick Castle despite the fact that that title belongs to me. You both have more than your fair share already, so maybe it's time I started to take things.”

— Emma Frost, George Duke of Clarence, David Oakes, imdb.com

“Harry is a black man, and I’m a white man. We obviously come from different backgrounds, but we stand together on this stage as brothers. And as a brother, I must say these race riots are terrible. It’s awful how stores are being looted. The burning, the rioting, the stealing. But if, God forbid, it…”

— Don Rickles, amazon.com

“People inflict pain on others in their selfish pursuit of happiness and satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a sense of universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.”

— Dalai Lama, twitter.com

“I'll tell you what happened, son! See, there's a bunch of idiots out there who weren't happy with what they had! They wanted a bigger house and materialistic things that they didn't even need. People with no money who got loans to buy frivolous things they had no business buying. And these assholes…”

— Trey Parker, Randy Marsh, Trey Parker, imdb.com

“Some people are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“So long as there are employers who attack social understanding and have wrong ideas of justice and fair play it is not only the right but also the duty of their employees—who are, after all, an integral part of our people—to protect the general interests against the greed and unreason of the individ…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Why do people struggle to make goals out of greed, when they know that someday we all end in the grave?”

— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net

“When mother-cow is chewing grass, its young ones watch its mouth.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.”

— George Pelecanos, Frank Sobotka, Chris Bauer, imdb.com