Quotes in selfishness

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

from the Wealth of Nations III.iv.10