Self-Interest Quotes

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

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.