Quotes and Sayings about Greed

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Wise Sayings

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes

Satisfaction

You see everyone wants everything, that's the way the world is. But I just might actually get it.

Jigo in Princess Mononoke

Climate Change

This 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.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

War

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Satisfaction

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison

Capitalism Wealth & Richness

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Little Richard

I’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 Cruise

The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

Antonio Banderas

Satisfaction

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

Donald Trump

The 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 2

The tragic thing about rich people is that someone else is always richer.

Karl Lagerfeld

Wealth & Richness

If 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 20

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Sylvia Plath

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

Satisfaction

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

Money Morality

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

John D. Rockefeller

Business Wealth & Richness

The 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.

Bob Marley

Selflessness

Our 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.

John Locke

Wealth & Richness

Youth 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 McLaughlin

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Mignon McLaughlin

Humanity

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Bob Marley

Money Numbers

They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

2Pac

War

Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.
Give a man a bank and he can rob the world.

Jim Trotter

Money Capitalism

Oh it's a mystery to me
You think you have to want more than you need

Eddie Vedder - Society

Capitalism

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

Life

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.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Humanity Money

He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain

Banks

The things you own end up owning you.

Tyler Durden in Fight Club

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

World Climate Change

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice

Wealth & Richness

Wealth is a nightmare. With each coveted thing we buy, we lose a thing we dream about.

Bungo Stray Dogs

Wealth & Richness

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Michael Connelly in The Last Coyote

Envy

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

Corruption Politicians

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

J.D. in Scrubs

Remorse Satisfaction

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust Money Friendship

You know what capitalism is? Gettin' f*cked!

Tony Montana in Scarface

Capitalism

We don't have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It's life or death.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Climate Change

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

War Warriors

If you go to sleep at night, you lay your head on the pillow and fall asleep. Where are you even just during this time? Nevertheless, you open your eyes again.

Bob Marley

Sleeping

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love Marriage

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

The Star Wars films are my kids. I loved them, I created them, I'm very intimately involved in them and I sold them to the white slavers.

George Lucas - about selling the Star Wars franchise to Disney

Quotes about Star Wars

Good is a point of view, Anakin. The Sith and the Jedi are similar in almost every way.

Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Jedi

Go back to your books, your fireplace. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more of us valued home above gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies

Home

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Courage

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