Pavel Durov Quotes

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.

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 do them all for the money, I really do.

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.

I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

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

It is interest alone which does it, and it is interest alone which can be trusted.

Profit is the concern of a little man.

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.

Self interest is a masterful agent in modern civilization.

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

Trump's one consistent position is that he will stop at nothing to protect his properties and his profits.

I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.

There's money to be made, and I want mine.

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.