Economic Quote by Milton Friedman

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

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

— Felix Frankfurter

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…

— Beau Willimon

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

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

— Catherine the Great

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

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

There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is…

— Dalai Lama

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

— Thomas Sowell

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

— Hilda Scott

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous