Admirable Quote by Felix Frankfurter

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

— Catherine the Great

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn…

— William C. Bryant

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

— John Stossel

We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest,…

— Patricia Aburdene

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set…

— Gary Becker

“If you press people to identify the motives behind their self-interest it usually boils down to four items: money, power, status, and popularity.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

“When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community--the all-important web of meaning we…

— Cacilda Jethá

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate…

— Frederic Bastiat

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking…

— Milton Friedman

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

— Milton Friedman