If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw, there it is. That’s the straw, you see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up![to Eli]
Greed took hold of our captain and first mate. So we headed out. A thousand leagues along the equator. Where knowledge ended, speculation began. That’s where the whales had gone to hide. As far from man as they could possibly go. But we hunted them down. Centuries before, sailors feared sailing off the edge of the Earth. But we where headed for the edge of sanity. Trust gave way to doubt. Hope to blind superstition.
Greed can be a powerful ally.
What are you looking so miserable about? There’s a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me.[to Fletcher]
The real education at our events was us learning the doctors were just as greedy and horny as everyone else.
I understand white people want our diamonds, yes? But how can my own people do this to each other?
I knew I could count on you. Sex always made you stupid, ready to believe anything. You’ve just made me a very rich woman. Do me one last favor, lover. Stay still long enough for me to blow your brains out.[to Dwight]
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.
Don’t you sometimes wish that we were here because we done something remarkable, something meaningful, and not because everyone’s a greedy piece of s***?[to Pete]
Don’t think because these boxes are sealed up, they’re empty. The only man who sells empty boxes is the undertaker. And by the look of some of you lot here today, I’d make more money with me measuring tape.
Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is.
