Reid Hoffman Quotes

Pride, envy, avarice—these sparks Have set on fire the hearts of all men.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present. Fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Avarice is a deadly sin.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

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

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.