There is a lot of talk about being selfish and how it’s a bad thing, but sometimes you have to be selfish in order to get what you want. Here are some quotes that will inspire you to be more selfish in your business pursuits.

1. If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there. — William Temple

2. The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end. — Stephen King

3. Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

4. Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

5. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. — Napoleon Hill

6. Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. — Sri Aurobindo

7. There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. — William Blake

8. Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul. — Zarina Bibi

9. Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. … Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one. — A. W. Tozer

10. Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul. — Zarina Bibi

11. Are you willing to nourish your heart with love — then your selfishness will starve to death.

12. Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. — William E. Gladstone

13. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non–love; it is the aim of the action. — M. Scott Peck

14. Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord. — William Branks

15. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

16. What’s the matter with the world? Why, there ain’t nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that’s selfishness. — Will Rogers

17. Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast. — Stewart Stafford

18. Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented–loneliness. — Paulo Coelho

19. If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there. — William Temple

20. The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. — Swami Vivekananda

21. …and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness. — M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier

22. She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness. — Victoria Dahl, Fanning the Flames

23. If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there. — William Temple

24. The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death. — Sunday Adelaja

26. In our country let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy Nigeria unity. — Saminu Kanti

27. Hold value; not price, carry moral; not pride. be of compassion; not selfishness, humble in your approach to live and loving with your gift to share. — Nikki Rowe

28. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. — Paulo Coelho

29. Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death. — Sunday Adelaja

30. At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

31. She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness. — Victoria Dahl, Fanning the Flames

32. Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. — Swami Vivekananda

33. Twin–sister of Religion, Selfishness. — P B Shelley

34. Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast. — Stewart Stafford

35. Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. — Woodrow Wilson

36. If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there. — William Temple

37. Messages that emphasis on you! You!! Promotes selfishness. — Sunday Adelaja

38. There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. — William Blake

39. The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. — Swami Vivekananda

40. There ain’t nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us and that’s selfishness. — Will Rogers

41. Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

42. Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere — helda omar

43. There ain’t nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us and that’s selfishness. — Will Rogers

44. Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else’s interest before one’s own. — Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree

45. Selfishness is the absence of selflessness — Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian

46. At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed. — Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

47. In our country let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy Nigeria unity. — Saminu Kanti

48. Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere — helda omar

49. Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. — Sri Aurobindo

50. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde

In conclusion, selfishness can be a good or bad thing. It can be a sign of strength and resilience, or it can be a sign of arrogance and entitlement. It is up to us to decide how we use our selfishness to benefit or harm ourselves and those around us. Ultimately, understanding our own selfishness and learning to use it in a healthy way is the best way to ensure that we make the most out of our lives.