If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

Quick gratification of desires, often lead to low stratifications in life

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with...

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.