Jose Mourinho Quotes

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

The major forces in human nature: self interest and caring for others

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

The whole history of the world has been the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish.

Wealth and compassion are opposites.

There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

There's no such thing as altruism.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.