Greed is to intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.

1. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi

2. Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
Janwillem van de Wetering

3. Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society’s losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.
Neal Boortz

4. Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly

5. Greed and anger are two such emotions, if they are controlled, then half of the miseries are solved automatically
Anonymous

6. The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid — these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money’s worth.
Polly Adler

7. Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.
Zarina Bibi

8. With Greed comes animosity, ignorance, pride, thoughts of self-benefit and discontent. With generosity comes loving-kindness, wisdom, humility, thoughts of all others and great joys.
Anonymous

9. Then Jesus said, Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own
Anonymous

10. Blinded by ambition and greed.
Bill Madden

11. Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Mason Cooley

12. Love is blind, and greed insatiable
Anonymous

13. Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Nina Simone

14. The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson

15. For greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

17. Jealousy, greed and envy won’t get you far in life, because you will always feel discontent and unhappy about yourself, your life and the people around us.
Anonymous

18. Greed is like a dark side of every man, and you could not see it from the appearance of a man, but in the inside the greedy beast already dominating you.
Steven Eric Chen

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

20. Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
Eartha Kitt

21. The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty. When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape. The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

22. The greed is back, that's always under the surface. The speculation is back and people are trying to get in before [the stock triples.
Francis Gaskins

23. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
William Faulkner

24. The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi

25. The interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, even after obtaining what you want, you’re still not satisfied. It’s this endless, nagging desire for more that leads to trouble. On the other hand, if you’re truly contented, it doesn’t matter whether you get what you want or not. Either way, you remain content.
Dalai Lama

26. Greed is a terrible thing.
Patricia Fitzgerald

27. Greed is a strange, strange sin. All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire attention. The running mantra is “I want, I want, I want” but that quickly turns to “I need, I need, I need.
Fisher Amelie

28. We will never solve our problems simply by instituting new laws and regulations. Ultimately, the source of our problems lies at the level of the individual. If people lack moral values and integrity, no system of laws and regulations will be adequate. So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, inequity, intolerance and greed — all the outward manifestations of neglect of inner values — will persist
Dalai Lama

29. The fool heap up wealth and possession out of pride and greed, the wise gather wisdom and good deeds out of gratitude and fear of God
Anonymous

30. The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion
Anonymous

31. Jealousy is the cousin of greed. We seem to focus on what we want and lose sight of what we really need
Anonymous

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32. He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace

33. Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth
Anonymous

34. Choose to want less rather than to have more
Anonymous

35. Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.
Cathryn Louis

36. It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
Louisa May Alcott

37. Three great forces rule the world stupidity, fear and greed.
Albert Einstein

38. Greed does not rest until it is satisfied, and greed is never satisfied.
Sam Eastland

39. Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.
Muhammad Taqi Usmani

40. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm

41. Hell has three gates lust, anger, and greed.
Bhagavad Gita

42. Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn.
Simon Mainwaring

43. I think greed sometimes gets the best of everybody.
Alan Haft

44. As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.
Rusty Eric

45. Gluttony, lust, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride
Anonymous

46. Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Julian Casablanca

47. Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Virgil

48. Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
Karl Marx

49. Fraud is the daughter of greed.
Jonathan Gash

50. Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.
Masanobu Fukuoka

51. We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation.
Adrienne Rich

52. Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger
Anonymous

53. I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.
Nelly

54. There Is Enough in the world For Everyone'S Need But Not enough For Everyone'S Greed
Anonymous

55. I think it's just greed and power at its very worst.
Sen Mary Lundby

56. Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Marc Estrin

57. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come – and gone. It's time for change in America.
Bill Clinton

58. With giving, we can let go of greed. With patience, we can dissolve hatred. With wisdom, we can sweep away ignorance
Anonymous

59. The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.
Dean Koontz

60. Basically, care nothing for celebrity, love only your God, your friends and your family, and be generous with your neighbors, even if they’re very far away.
Fisher Amelie

61. The highest wealth is the absence of greed.
Seneca

62. This pursuit of Theo was not borne out of hatred for him as a man or a Jew. All of that was just an excuse – an excuse for lawless men to take what belonged to others. It seemed strange that those who served the Hitlers and the Himmlers and the Gorings believed constant lies. “The Jew is a misfortune.” It was those little men in the service of greed who were the most violent, the most dedicated to the brutality of the racial policies. They murdered and terrorized for one reason only: because they could. They were the law of the lawlessness; the power of evil was their creed and their joy and their god
Bodie Thoene