#greed

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#class-warfare #economics #economics-greed #economics-money #inequality

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#greed #wealth #money

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you. ↗

— Joe Vigil

#born-to-run #christopher-mcdougall #folly #greed #running

Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#lemony-snicket #money #occupy-wall-street #money

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others ↗

— Iain Banks

#dystopia #greed #indictment #morality #nihilistic

I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards ↗

— Charles Manson

#greed #money

They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#greed #money #pride #relationships #society

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#materialism #money #success #wealth #money

You can never have too much money. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#lottery #lottery-tickets #materialism #materialism-versus-spiritualism #money

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#greed #need #money