'Selfishness' Ideas

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

Princess Superstar

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

Christina Stead

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Tertullian

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Richard Dawkins

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

Charlie Munger

Achievement Deserving Success

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Jean Cocteau

Deception Perception Reality

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Jean Cocteau

Identity Individuality Rebellion

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about.

Charlie Munger

Worry

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.

Charlie Munger

Criticism Past Stupidity

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