Self-interested Quotes

• Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • Behavior
  • Rational
  • Self-interested

• Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Morality
  • Despair
  • Self-interested

• We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum.

  

  Ed Mayo
  • Story
  • Competitive
  • Self-interested