Explore 'Self-interest'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

William Penn

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Lord Chesterfield

Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.

Louis J. Camuti

We’re on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

Michael S. Heiser

I have learned that you’re only relevant to someone if you’re beneficial to them somehow/some way

Miguel

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,–each his own interest.

George Berkeley

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

Walter Bagehot

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

William H. Prescott

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

H. Rider Haggard

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

George Washington

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Giacomo Leopardi

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

Gore Vidal

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Greg Bear

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

James Cook

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

James Harvey Robinson

GM will do what’s best for GM, and Delphi should do what’s good for them.

David Tepper

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