Jo Brand Quotes

Men will always be powerfully influenced in their Opinions and Actions by what appears to be their particular Interest.

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.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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

Everybody has an agenda.

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 regard as just whatever they believe to be advantageous.

Self interest is a masterful agent in modern civilization.

We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

My incentive in starting Vanguard, I'm very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my career. That's a very selfish thing.

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.