Top 563 Greedy Quotes & Sayings

Bloggers are lazy and greedy.

Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make.

He who is greedy is always in want.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

I am not a greedy person.

There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

You've got to be greedy in this game and to keep pushing.

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

Mother always said you were greedy.

I try to be more mindful and less greedy.

I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

We risk all in being too greedy.

Greedy actors should never be satisfied.

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

As an actor, I am greedy.

Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

Value investors have to be patient and disciplined, but what I really think is you need not to be greedy. If you're greedy and you leverage, you blow up. Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

I am not too much greedy.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

I'm not overly greedy.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

I'm all about assists; I'm not really greedy.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.

I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

I've always been greedy. I think every actor is greedy for good parts and stories, and it should be that way.

I am not a greedy actor.

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.

I'm not a real greedy guy.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

I come from a family of greedy food lovers.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.