Personal Gain Quotes

I have not come here for such reasons. I have come to take away their gold.

Don’t ever ask a barber if you need a haircut.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Property, once recognized, gave rise to the first rules of justice; for, to secure each man his own, it had to be possible for each to have something. Besides, as men began to look forward to the future, and all had something to lose, every one had reason to apprehend that reprisals would follow any injury he might do to another.

When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

He [Martin Van Buren] is an artful, cunning, intriguing, selfish, speculating lawyer, who, by holding lucrative offices for more than half his life, has contrived to amass a princely fortune, and is now seeking the Presidency, principally for sordid gain, and to gratify the most selfish ambition.

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

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

Savage is he who saves himself.

I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.

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

A government job is an occasion for public service, not special privilege. The undivided loyalty to the public interest required of the governorship makes it inappropriate to keep the profusion of gifts that arrive every day at this office.

Everyone wants to get a piece of me.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

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.

Experts are human, and humans respond to incentives. How any given expert treats you, therefore, will depend on how that expert's incentives are set up.

A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.