Self Interest Quotes

230 Self Interest quotes by 193 unique authors

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically… — Napoleon Hill
The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest. — William Dean Howells
I think most people act in their self-interest. — Aubrey McClendon
My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as… — Majora Carter
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective,… — Beau Willimon
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable -… — George Packer
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under… — George Packer
Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own… — P.J. O'Rourke
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about… — James E. Faust
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never… — David Blunkett
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal,… — John Perry Barlow
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including… — John Charles Polanyi
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic. — Christian Lous Lange
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale… — Diego Della Valle
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is… — Anthony Lewis
I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and… — Fidel Castro
There is some self interest behind every relationship..this is a bitter truth. — Kshitij Roshan
There is nothing you can do about life. Life doesn't wield to our command, nor does it change for our self interest. No tornado will… — Jeremy Limn
The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage. — Jeremy Limn
If human beings were not so consumed with self interest the world would be a better place. Replace self interest with, love and care for… — Jeremy Limn
I hate being human, not the fact I hate my humanity. Because I'm in this prison, my bones holding everything together. Breathing is a relapse,… — Jeremy Limn
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with… — James L. Buckley
Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. — Unknown Author
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their… — Adam Smith

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