Sandra Lerner Quotes

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.

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.

The special interest is the other buy’s interest and general interest is your own.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

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

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

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

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.

Must we always look for the political opinions of our businessmen precisely where they suppose their immediate pecuniary advantage to be found?

vested interest

You consult your honor; I my interest.

No man must be Judge who propounds unto himself any hope of profit, or glory, from the victory of either party.

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.

Self interest is a masterful agent in modern civilization.

… a good society ensues from the selfish pursuits of individual men.

The NBA is going to do what they want to do. They're going to do what's best for them; not what's best for us.

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

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.

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.