Self Interest Quotes

"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest." "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." "I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires" "Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?" "If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." "Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?" "Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable" "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear" "Man serves the interests of no creature except himself." "The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea" "In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right" "Everything is governed by interest " "Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense" "When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interest which is thereby designated." "If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it" "People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial." "People are always far more interested in themselves than in anyone else. Your book will most probably interest them if it helps them see themselves in a new light" "Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome." "Intellectuals may like to imagine themselves as people who speak truth to power, but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power" "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."