Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

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

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

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.

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

Money is evil.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

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.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

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.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.