Bobby Fischer Quotes

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

The selfish spirit of commerce which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Capitalists are no more capable of self sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself by his own bootstraps.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated—unfairly so in my opinion. … there's nothing wrong with avarice as a motive as long as it doesn't lead to dishonest … conduct.

Why do men go to war? Is it not in some way to better their condition. All these new fangled notions that men fight for other things than their own personal advantage is pure delusion. It is the solid things of life that men are ever after, though some of them haven't the courage to admit it. What is love of country but love of it's good things?

The public be damned. What does the public care for railroads except to get as much out of them for as small a consideration as possible? I don't take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody's good but our own, because we are not. When we make a move, we do it because it is in our interest to do so, and not because we expect to do somebody else good.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

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.

If you cash in on people, then they aren't your friends.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

Not everybody's actions are based on ideas. Some people's actions are based on profit.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.