Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest,… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
In order to move on you need to stop focusing on their life, and you need to start focusing on your own… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest. — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Nobody does anything for the good of others; but as he pursues his own interests, he is brought to work unwittingly for… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big difference. A person who has no self-interest to do… — Anuj Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
“There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“George Bernard Shaw once said: “Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do. — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins. — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
