Quotes About Self-interest

Memory extends as far as our self-interest.

La doctrina del egoísmo es y seguirá siendo guardarse a sí mismo, no lo es ni la gratitud ni el deber ni el respeto.

Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their interests as narrowly as possible.This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and is not desirable.

if everything finally comes down to inward-looking self-interest, to getting more for oneself, to accumulating wealth or power, very little is left for other motivations that can be described as true, noble, good, and lovely.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

When theories of values do not afford intellectual assistance in framing ideas and beliefs about values that are adequate to direct action, the gap must be filled by other means. If intelligent method is lacking, prejudice, the pressure of immediate circumstance, self-interest and class-interest, traditional customs, institutions of accidental historic origin, are not lacking, and they tend to take the place of intelligence.

Thus, by degrees, we began to discover Tisquantum; whose ends were only to make himself great in the eyes of his countrymen, by means of his nearness and favour with us: not caring who fell, so he stood.

Life owns own purpose, each one of us, breathes and struggles under that philosophy; thus, it defines; indeed, a conflict of self-interest in all dimensions.

Such a lie becomes beneficial and favourable that favours your interests; stay realistic about that reality.

To dictate self-interests than mutual, cannot surpass and prevail, upon one who stays self-determined.

It was about getting what he wanted, and if he had to do business with an evil person like Mugabe, then so be it, as long as he got his part off the deal.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

A person can't trust the people around oneself to the extent s/he has self-interest & lust as dirt & dust spread across from the top to bottom crust of her/his mind.

A person who claims to have joined politics to serve the people is mostly interested in building own growth curve.

A person who is telling only those things that the people are willing to hear for fulfilling their greed is not motivating but misleading them to satiate solely own selfish need.

Anything said that affects anyhow own vested-interest profitability is negativity to a large majority of people; Anyone who says such things often to show the crude reality of life, then for them he is a negative person.

Literally speaking, the people don't care what a person says or shares until they find their own share of benefits from him and then virtually nobody spares to put 'Likes' on his any damn online posts.

People are so selfish that they do not unite even to fight for their respective fundamental fight unless and until each person's self-interest is only involved.

People unite in a group merely for each person's individual's profit only,otherwise never and not.

Self-respect is inversely proportional to self-interest.

The moral of the motivational story is that if not all then at least a very large majority of the people are merely loyal to their own profits only in every relationship, and not to any person.

The people don't care even a bit to a person who is not fair to others, but many don't mind to go along with him anywhere as long as they either get the reimbursement of their to and fro journey fare or/and have own vested interest in his ostentatious public affair.