The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political. — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine… — Arlene Francis Copy Share Image
When all you focus on is yourself, you'll always want more, and you'll never be satisfied with what you have. — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is not in… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you… — Michael Arditti Copy Share Image
“Leadership, Alpha, comes at a cost. You see, we expect that when danger threatens us from the outside, that the person who… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The… — Milton Friedman 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
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Virtues are lost in self interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” — Francois de la Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image