Lee R. Raymond Quotes

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.

Greed is good.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

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.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

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

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

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

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.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

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

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.

Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

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.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.