Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed. He who is contented with contentment is always contented.

In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.