Top 130 Greedy Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Greedy Quotes from famous people such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Satyadev Kancharana, Bradley Wright-Phillips, P. J. O’Rourke, Anupam Kher, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don’t be greedy, share.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I am a greedy artiste. Wherever I will find good stories, I will do it.
Satyadev Kancharana
Every striker from England I know is the same; they’re greedy and they want to get goals.
Bradley Wright-Phillips
Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
P. J. O’Rourke
I’m very happy doing what I’m doing; I don’t think I’m prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I’d like to give it 100%. I’m not in the frame of mind, and I’m too greedy an actor to do that.
Anupam Kher
I think we’re all greedy. Who do you know who says, ‘I have enough! I don’t need any more!’? It’s part of human nature.
Kevin Macdonald
We have to put an end to the culture of selfishness and corruption that allows greedy Wall Street banks and executives to rip off working people without any consequences.
Tulsi Gabbard
I’m greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
David Mamet
I’m writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I’m very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
Tanith Lee
As an actor, I am greedy.
Shweta Tripathi
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.
Michael Douglas
I’ve personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I’ve tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I’ve led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Gary Ackerman
Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I’m being too greedy.
Inbee Park
I always knew I could be a bit on the greedy side; I love cooking and eating and there in front of me was the evidence which I would have been daft to ignore. I could see visually where the fat was lying, basically all around my internal organs.
Dave Myers
As far as I know, Mr. Watzke has not said he would sell me if somebody offered 100m. He has emphasised that the club would like to continue working with me. The club is just greedy for success – and so am I.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Film-makers are greedy people – we want good stories and good subjects.
Rajkumar Hirani
This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.
Lisa Lopes
Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
P. J. O’Rourke
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
E. F. Benson
I am not too much greedy.
Amrapali Gupta
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia
There are so many characters I want to play. I’m greedy about acting.
Song Joong-ki
We need to support the media by subscribing to newspapers and magazines and supporting their advertisers to stay in business. And we need to be less greedy and allow journalists to take the time to pull the story together.
Daniel Levitin
My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
Vidya Balan
Back when I was in high school, being a Republican was like cursing. Republicans were greedy people who didn’t take care of the workingman.
Richard Ojeda
You shouldn’t be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.
Gina Carano
You’ve got to be greedy in this game and to keep pushing.
Mike Phelan
I’ve always wanted to be a winner, the best player, the one that everyone is talking about. I’m greedy in that sense.
James Maddison
I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.
Swara Bhaskar
If you want my Tim Hortons order, I do get the egg and sausage and cheese on a biscuit. One is usually enough. If I’m really feeling greedy, I’ll get two. I’ll do that with a large coffee.
Vanessa Williams
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.
P. J. O’Rourke
I am a greedy actor, and I want the best roles to come

I am a greedy actor, and I want the best roles to come my way.
Kartik Aaryan
Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan’s parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy… individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.
John Cameron Mitchell
Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone’s money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.
Jonathan Raymond
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That’s a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
Gavin Hood
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong
I’m greedy for good films, and will test waters in new territories as long as I get to satiate that greed.
Padmapriya Janakiraman
There are many kids who are greedy or don’t appreciate things or take things for granted but it’s not their fault. It’s the parents who have to show and teach them the difference between right and wrong.
Hiten Tejwani
We’ve got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they’re running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn’t take.
Joe Jamail
The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.
Rhys Ifans
I don’t think of the future too much. I am not very practical, I am a very emotional woman. My heart rules my life, not the mind. I don’t crave anything apart from buying a really good car. I am not greedy for anything in life.
Roopa Ganguly
The abortionist I worked for, he’s a very greedy man, a selfish man.
Norma McCorvey
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That’s fine. But what do you do?
Bernie Sanders
It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world’s resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it – not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.
Alexandra Fuller
SpongeBob represents idiocy. He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain.
Stephen Hillenburg
I am not a greedy actor.
Nana Patekar
People think that libertarians are probably greedy and anti-social, and I’m sure some of them are. But the nice thing about it is, it’s really an umbrella term that covers a lot of different people.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
The story of Warner Brothers’ movie, ‘Mildred Pierce,’ recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
Manny Farber
The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees – just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.
Dennis Hastert
Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find – at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers – unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.
Jacob Weisberg
Bollywood is not a stepping stone to the West. I am extremely picky and in no hurry to sign a Hollywood film. I am only greedy for great roles; language and country is no barrier. And yes, I’ll always be a Hindi film star first.
Priyanka Chopra
No actor wants to choose – they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
Gillian Jacobs
I can’t play football forever, I am not a greedy person.
Jay-Jay Okocha
I’m so greedy, I’m hungry, I’m young.
Lil Wayne
One of my frustrations is that we in society generally have this bifurcation in how we see the world. That’s probably a little less true with business audiences, but in general, there tends to be this view that for-profit companies are greedy, and nonprofits are noble. It’s absolutely more complicated than that.
Nicholas Kristof
I want to work in all sorts of movies, I am very greedy.
Vaani Kapoor
When I was a label head, I didn’t think I was greedy. I’ve always run my own race.
Jimmy Iovine
It’s like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already… and I’m so greedy for other people’s desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.
Jenny Zhang
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
Chris Martin
I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
Harry Chapin