Quotes About Self-interest

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection. You say what you have to say in the way you have to say it to give it media currency - and that's always far from the truth. Often, in fact, someone else says it for you. It's all planned. It's all rehearsed.

I have to please me, personal foremost, I have to do work that I find interesting, that pleases me, by and large.

The emoluments clause is in the Constitution for a reason: We, as Americans, need to know that the president acts in our best interests, not his own self-interest.

Shiv Sena is taking on the government for people's issues and not for self- interest. We will continue to fight with the government on the issues concerning common people.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Moral psychology has a metaphysical foundation; self-interest implies community, and community, universality. Egoism has as its contrast altruism; but that contrast is otiose if the good of the self is the good of the others.

What lubricates the process for us is faith—faith supported by experience—that employees can pursue their self-interest and fulfill the company's agenda at the same time. If there's a match or alignment between what we want and what they want, the results will be twofold: While they're busy satisfying themselves, they'll satisfy the company's objectives, too. They succeed, we succeed.

We're in favor of a hierarchy of self-interest and talent and opposed to the symbols of power and control that come with it.

Here's a counterintuitive idea for you: For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

In The Wealth of Nations, Smith unveiled one of the most liberating of modern ideas—that the interests of the community could be advanced better by the self-interest than by the "benevolence" of the butcher, the baker and all the other upwardly clambering capitalists.

The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all of the time, make choices that are in their best interest or at the very least are better than the choices that would be made by someone else.

The distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen famously called people who always give nothing in this game rational fools for blindly following only material self-interest: "The purely economic man is indeed close to being a social moron. Economic theory has been much preoccupied with this rational fool.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

Gabriel might always have his own best interests at heart, but he expects everyone else to do the same for themselves. To him, we are all the center of our own universes.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can.

The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of modify their own political and social self-interest.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.