Winnie Mandela Quotes

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

To plunder, to lie, to show your ass, are the three essentials for climbing high.

Resist the temptation to exploit power for personal or group interests.

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.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

The chief of these [problems governing Korea] arise from the character of the Koreans. Many of them are crooked. They want "squeeze" from the Japanese and their own people. They are lazy.

There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn't find 40 wise men in the cave. But to label everyone in Trumpworld a grifter misses important subtleties. It conflates grifters and grafters, and it ignores the crucial distinction between the two.

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

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

A selfish man is a thief.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.