Kerry King Quotes

Our true passions are selfish.

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

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

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

This is a selfish sport. I'm going out there and winning for myself.

You gotta let the fans shine their glory the way they want. It's like I have a million bosses and my job is to make them happy.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

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

I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

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.

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.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.