self-interest quotes

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

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

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.