Robert Stack Quotes

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

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

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.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

Self interest is a masterful agent in modern civilization.

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.

I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?" "Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.