Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

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

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

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

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

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

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.

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

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

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.