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Self-interest


 A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most impo
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."
  Donald Rumsfeld

 Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."
  Donald Rumsfeld

 By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest
  Bertrand Russell

 Deny Self for Self's sake
  Benjamin Franklin

 For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
  Mark Twain

 People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

 People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

 Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

 The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
  Edmund Burke

 The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had.

 The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had.

 The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
  Margot Fonteyn

 We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

 We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best
  Anatole France


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