Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.
I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.
I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.
I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything.
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
Greedy actors should never be satisfied.
In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.
We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.
When you have a billion dollar show, there's a few people that have their hands out.
Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.
Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.
Money is a bad friend. Don't ever do anything for money.
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.
