#greed

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#soul #greed

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#fire #folly #greed #hatred #passion

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful ↗

— Warren Buffett

#greed #investment-advice #greed

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#greed

I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable? ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#greed

Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he nodded sadly and spoke sombrely and pocketed the silverware when he thought no one was looking ↗

— Derek Landy

#sad #silverware #steal #greed

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace. ↗

— Tacitus

#peace #greed

Fraud is the daughter of greed. ↗

— Jonathan Gash

#fraud #greed #lovejoy #greed

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom. ↗

— John Charles Chasteen

#freedom #greed #freedom

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for? ↗

— H.M. Forester

#public-service #selfishness #money