#greed

I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now. ↗

— Dana Snyder

#dry #greedy #her #house #i

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#among #budget #budget deficits #countries #deficits

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#could #einstein #max #mystery #plank

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#man #need #sufficiency #world

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. ↗

— Al Stewart

#cool #fresh #gave #greed #hard

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#connection #crimes #each #financial #fraud

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#greedy #i #old #parts #play

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#between #confidence #france #i #italy

For greed all nature is too little. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#little #nature #too