Self-Interest Quotes

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. James F. Byrnes
Life Friendship Beautiful Rare Beautiful Things Without Self-Interest Things
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Chanakya
Friendship Truth Every Bitter Bitter Truth Some Without Self-Interest Behind
Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.' Jay-Z
Politics Time Vote People Voting Care Will Power Believe Think Liars Say About Rise Support Self-Interest Still Balls Bunch dont Care Happens Whether Themselves Next Next Time Based Things
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Enemy Affection True Self-Interest
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lost Virtues Rivers Self-Interest Sea
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism Power Our Backed Destroyed Self Force Self-Interest Effective Any Interest Belief
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear Men Only Self Self-Interest Moved Interest Two
Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest. John Hickenlooper
Democracy Own Community Benefit Solely Recognition Some Empathy Without Self-Interest Narrow Regard Decisions Based
We need leaders who appeal to us to think about something other than narrow self-interest but instead focus upon the greater good. Evan Bayh
Good Focus Think Other About Something Instead Leaders Greater Greater Good Self-Interest Narrow Than Us Who Appeal Need
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. John Stossel
Innovation People World Prosperity Own Powers Self-Interest Discovery Fuel Acting
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. Pindar
Wisdom Self-Interest Yield Even
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. William Sloane Coffin
Life Ignorance Cause Restrain Only Environment Self-Interest Human Human Life Violence
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ. John Paul Jones
Alone Class Those Determines Adventurers Employ Well Principle Self-Interest Than Owners Common Mankind Whom
The cost of leadership is self-interest. Simon Sinek
Leadership Cost Self-Interest
People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.' Arlie Russell Hochschild
People Church Recycling Sense Group Market Our Neighborhood Something Kitchen Through Self Part Volunteer Feel Come Calls Self-Interest Soup Than Get Different Center Us Who Larger Belonging
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. Carlos Fuentes
World Philanthropy Everyone Economic New Concerned Exercise Self-Interest New World Order Enlightened
For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic. Christian Lous Lange
Nature Power State Unlimited Claims Determined Only Development Self-Interest Sovereignty Right
The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. Claire Denis
Find Only Self-Interest The Only Thing Interesting Thing
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination. David Blunkett
People Party Our Draw Must Promoting Never Instead Remind Self-Determination Force Sought Self-Interest Self-Reliance Been Labour Labour Party Represent Created Roots Engaging Who Why Early
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor. Diego Della Valle
Politics Government Own Think Worry Morale About Finger Only Tend Put Industry Because Self-Interest Italian Lack Low Poor Should Help Businessmen Initiatives
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so. Eli Pariser
Democracy Problems Own Address See Able Outside Step Sort Self-Interest Narrow Common Public Them Requires Whole Actually
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. Elihu Root
Rights Dangerous Passion Differences Adherence More Stubborn Most Opinion Self-Interest Real Than Suspicion Regarding Prejudice
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. Evan Bayh
Welfare Party National Congress Alike Members Spirit New Beyond Devotion Self-Interest Public Required
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology. George Packer
Political Think Guide Out Immovable Something Individual Powerful Self-Interest Least Leaves Overrated Motive Psychology Actually
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party. George Packer
Broken Pressure Party Aggressive Down Increasingly Gingrich Abnormal More Individual Volatile Institutional Perhaps Self-Interest Self-Restraint Than Norms Republican Republican Party Far Even
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. Hillary Clinton
Diplomacy Definitions Open Part Self-Interest Different
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