61 Quotes About Self-interest

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

If you can’t see beyond your own interest, you can’t be a leader. Leaders need to rise above self.

It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.

In my opinion, I think the cure to the arrogance gene in humans, is the starting point to finding the cure to all diseases.

Games are the only force in the known universe that can get people to take actions against their self-interest, in a predictable way, without using force.

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

Darling, I’ve realised I don’t love you. 

If I loved anyone, it would be you. But I love no one. 

I’ve come to understand I don’t care about anything except for myself. Any kindness I’ve ever shown has been in my own self-interest. The very existence of other people seems doubtful. I wanted more from life than this.Let’s have a baby.

Today's ideology masquerades as pragmatism with that pragmatism reduced to the simplistic assumption that the basis of human nature is self-interest, a view which discount philanthropy, discredits altruism, with the only motive deserving of trust self-promotion and self-advancement.This so-called pragmatism is wicked and it is doubly so because it is held up as being both realistic and a virtue. Whereas it is shallow, shabby and all too often callous.