Will C. Barnes Quotes

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

For such is the disease of wealth, which knows no limit to its desire of more...

Greed is good.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

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.

Of course, I do everything for money.

For greed, all nature is too little.

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.

Money. All these guys care about is money. They want money. How much money have we given them?

The selfish spirit of commerce which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

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.

… an avalanche of avarice

Sir, I here enter my solemn protest against a low and calculating avarice entering this hall of legislation. It is only fit for shops and counting houses.

.... the forces of greed

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

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

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Money is evil.

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

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Avarice, the spur of industry.