Harry Connick Jr. Quotes

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.

I just respect people and mind my business. I don't got time to worry about what the next man's pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.

You concentrate just on yourself. I can't wallow in anything, can't worry about what others are doing.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

I don't want to share my worries - that's for me to know.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I have found there is no difficulty in inducing men to look after their own property.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

A man's neighbors or his landlord may be much cleverer than himself, and not without an indirect interest in his prosperity, but for all that his interests will be better attended to in his own keeping than in theirs.

…the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me, of all the philosophical theories, the most attuned to the needs of men in our time, and I see in it the most powerful safeguard men have left against themselves.

I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my family. I don't look outside that and certainly don't care what anyone else thinks.

Every one of us in this country is based on you've gotta take care of yourself.

At the end of the day you have got to do what's best for you and what's best for your family.

I don't fight for anybody else besides myself and my family, so therefore I win.

I just look at what is best for me.