Steve Mnuchin Quotes

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

A selfish man is a thief.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage of others' hardships in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

Donald Trump is a fraud. Listening to him talk about how he's going to put American first again, he's spent his entire career putting his own profits first.

There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.

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

Some people cheat because they want to, because they can, because it gives them a thrill, or because they just can't do long-term relationships.

You should never bury someone to forward your own personal interest. And I would never do that to anyone else on the planet.

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

… a man steeped in falsehood … who had recourse to the lie whenever it suits his convenience …. He would sell his grandmother for any advantage.

Beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power.

For his own sordid ends The pulpit he ascends

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.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

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.

No one expresses very great faith in the unselfishness of human being and everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that we must count on a certain amount of greed and willingness on the part of some human beings to prey upon others.

Sir, I here enter my solemn protest against a low and calculating avarice entering this hall of legislation. It is only fit for shops and counting houses.

I just don't like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.

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.