“Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“All I worried about was what (Owings) was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path.”
Dan Gable
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Deny Self for Self's sake”
Benjamin Franklin
“By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest”
Bertrand Russell
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.”
