Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

It all boils down to power and money.

Greed is good.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

'Wall Street' was the big movie of 1987, the year in which Harveys opened. It was a film about greed and self-indulgence, about hunger for success, and Michael Douglas's line, 'breakfast is for wimps,' became a mantra for anyone who wanted to get to the top.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn't come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.