Claude C. Hopkins Quotes

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

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

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

I am a very selfish person.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.

I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

Donald Trump always takes care of Donald and people like Donald.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

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

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Men tend to be selfish.