Travis Bradberry Quotes

I don't think it's good to interact with people with a certain agenda in mind.

These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Everybody has an agenda.

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

I don't for one second spend any time thinking about carefully ingratiating myself with someone for the future.

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

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

A friend advises in his interest, not yours.

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

[Beware of those] who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

class interests in disguise.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

You've just got to be wary around people. You don't know what they want from you. Just in L.A., people have questionable motives. Everybody's kind of got an angle. You've got to be aware of that.

Now, I know a lot of things in the big man's world are not what they seem: a lot of people are out for themselves, and you can't always trust what someone says.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.