Tiger Woods Quotes

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

Greed is all right ... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Greed, greed, greed. That’s the fundamental problem of mankind. If we can solve that problem, the rest of man’s problems would follow. The only thing that can undermine our free society is greed.

…luxury is the result of wealth, or it makes wealth necessary. It corrupts both rich and poor, the one by possessing, the other by coveting. It sells out the fatherland to indolence and vanity; it deprives the State of all its Citizens by enslaving some of them to others and all of them to opinion.

The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.