Acquisition of Wealth Quotes

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Money. All these guys care about is money. They want money. How much money have we given them?

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

I always wanted more - more of everything.

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

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

The more things you own, the more people you need to employ.

However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel everyone else in the accumulation of goods.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.