Self-Advantage Quotes

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

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

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.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

There's a big advantage in people underestimating you.

I think it's just in my nature to irritate people and push things as far as I can. It's really benefited me in WWE.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Fear has been good to yours truly.

They regard as just whatever they believe to be advantageous.

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

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

The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage…

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

He too, liked his party, and was fond of loyal men; but he had learned at last that all loyalty must be built on a basis of self-advantage. Patriotism may exist without it, but …loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

My dad taught me a lot of meditative techniques. I used that to my advantage.

When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.

Politics is the science of always using the most convenient means in accord with one's own interests.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

We are best pleased with reforms that are far enough away so as not to affect ourselves

At Walsall I got away with a lot of things because I was the young star and they wanted to sell me from a business point of view.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.