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
“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary. — Mandy Hale 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
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a… — James E. Faust 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
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
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest. — Harold Geneen 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
Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart,… — Sandor Marai Copy Share Image
Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Law 13: When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude. — The 48 Laws Of Power Copy Share Image
Vain people can't focus beyond the reflection of themselves in a vanity. — Michael Travis Copy Share Image
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. — John Galt Copy Share Image
Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life... — Anonymous Copy Share Image