Eric Allman Quotes

I think most people act in their self-interest.

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

If individuals have no sufficient reason to believe that a good situation today will have adverse long-term consequences, it must always be rational for them to aim to maximize their short-term good.

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How does it affect me, now? How does it affect the next shareholders meeting, three months ahead? How does it affect my next political campaign?"

We are, after all, homo economicus.

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Donald Trump always takes care of Donald and people like Donald.

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.

The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.