Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
This god, this one word: I.
I am a very selfish person.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
I live for myself and answer to nobody.
I’m not trying to make friends, I’m trying to make money.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.