Richard Armitage Quotes

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated—unfairly so in my opinion. … there's nothing wrong with avarice as a motive as long as it doesn't lead to dishonest … conduct.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.

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

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

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

I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.

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.

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

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

There's always more money to be made.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

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

Greed is good.