Helen Mirren Quotes

He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.

I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.

The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

A politician cannot separate his own personal advantage from his own political advantage.

Politics are now nothing more than the means of rising in the world.

Whenever any one of them [world leaders] hath striven to improve its country’s condition, his motive hath been his own gain

This man [Aaron Burr] has no principles, public or private. As a politician, his sole spring of action is an inordinate ambition.

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.

They regard as just whatever they believe to be advantageous.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

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

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

You think Trump cares if you leave? He wants power, not prosperity.

My incentive in starting Vanguard, I'm very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my career. That's a very selfish thing.

I was always pretty selfish.

You should never bury someone to forward your own personal interest. And I would never do that to anyone else on the planet.

Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us.

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

If those people who come in to join the PSP, hoping to extract something from the party for themselves, I think even if they leave, I will not feel sorry.

Like everybody else, I am naturally selfish, and so I'm going to think about myself.

Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves