Status msg about Greed

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

Erich Fromm

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Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

Andy Stanley

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.    

Eartha Kitt

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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Vanna Bonta

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me     

Brian Tracy

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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

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

Warren Buffett

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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.    

Maya Angelou

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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.    

Thoreau

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Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Mark Twain

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.    

Kierkegaard

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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury

Charlie Chaplin

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Blaise Pascal

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For greed all nature is too little.    

Seneca

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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.    

Friedrich Engels

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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Little Richard

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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Julian Casablancas

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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

B.C. Forbes

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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.    

Mason Cooley

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A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.    

Swiss Proverb

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.    

Oscar Wilde

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Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Janwillem Van De Wetering

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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.    

Lau Tzu

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.    

Thomas Jefferson

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Big mouthfuls often choke.

Italian Proverb

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.    

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.    

Charles Caleb Colton

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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France