"... I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but, by all the stars! these were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove men -- men I tell you."
(Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works."
(Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987)

"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?"
(Ivana Santilli, Too Deep)

"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice."
(Andreas Capellanus)

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
(Gandhi)


"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."
(Jane Austen)

"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs."
(Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321)

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
(Edgar Allan Poe)

To make a business decision, you don't need much philosophy; all you need is greed, and maybe a little knowledge of how the game works.
(Bill Watterson)

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

Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.
(Buddha)

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.
(Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

Love is blind, and greed insatiable.
(Chinese Proverb)