The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we’re still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.

Greed is the pursuit of money, wealth and power at the expense of others.

All hardships in life arise from greed and desire.

Money is not the root of all evil, greed is.

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

Happy the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Greed alters our sense of priorities.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

It didn’t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.

We’re all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed.

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