If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Wise SayingsThorin Eichenschild in The HobbitTo make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
SatisfactionCalvin and Hobbes, by CalvinYou see everyone wants everything, that's the way the world is. But I just might actually get it.
Climate ChangePrincess Mononoke, by JigoThis is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.
WarAvatar, by Jake SullyIt's not the having, it's the getting.
Elizabeth TaylorThere are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
SatisfactionGilbert Keith ChestertonI believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Capitalism, Wealth & RichnessWilliam Henry HarrisonBut men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
Little RichardI’ve never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
Tom CruisePerhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna FerberThe point is that you can't be too greedy.
Donald TrumpThe problem with always wanting more is that the second you get it, it can always be taken away.
Harvey Specter in Suits, Season 5 Episode 2The tragic thing about rich people is that someone else is always richer.
Wealth & RichnessKarl LagerfeldIf you define yourself by the power to take life, the desire to dominate, to possess... then you have nothing.
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Rebels, Season 3 Episode 20Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia PlathIf your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
Business, Wealth & RichnessJohn D. RockefellerThe greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
SelflessnessBob MarleyOur incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Wealth & RichnessJohn LockeYouth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Mignon McLaughlinMoney is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
MoneyBob MarleyGive a man a gun and he can rob a bank.
Give a man a bank and he can rob the world.
Oh it's a mystery to me
You think you have to want more than you need
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Humanity, MoneyAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneHe who awaits much can expect little.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
BanksMark TwainThe things you own end up owning you.
Fight Club, by Tyler DurdenThere is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
World, Climate ChangeMahatma Gandhi