Top 1200 Greedy People Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

I am a greedy actor, and it upsets me losing work I have wanted to do, but that is a motivator not a dampener.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.

Yes, I am a very greedy actor. I love acting, and I want to do all kinds of roles.

I'm not greedy - I have a pretty good life. I don't have an expensive lifestyle, so I can make my living teaching classes at my gym.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

I'm greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot-and we're still being warned against the 'robber barons' of the 19th century. I don't know that Jay Gould or John D. Rockefeller ever killed anyone. The State has killed countless people, and yet we're always supposed to remain on guard against these 'greedy villains' of yesteryear.

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

I've always wanted to be a winner, the best player, the one that everyone is talking about. I'm greedy in that sense.

I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

We might hope to change the world through better, bigger programs to stop global warming, but global warming will not end unless people become less greedy and less wasteful, gaining a fresh vision of what it means to love our global neighbor.

I was born in an earlier generation and, as a group, my classmates at Blair Academy and Princeton University were as ethical, straightforward, and integrity laden as you could possibly imagine - perhaps not a 100% - but the overwhelming majority. I've been in business a long, long time and I simply cannot imagine seeking out cheating, greedy people.

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.

We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

I'm in a weird position, because I like rainbows, but I'm not gay. So whenever I go out wearing a rainbow shirt, I have to put "Not gay." But I'm not against gays, so under that I'll have to put "... but supportive." It's weird how one group of people took refracted light. That's very greedy, gays.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.