Top 15 Selfishness Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

— Ayn Rand

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2. “This god, this one word: I.”

— Ayn Rand

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3. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

— Ayn Rand

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4. “When I say or do something I do it, I don’t give a damn what you think, I’m doing this for me...”

— Eminem

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5. “There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

— Chanakya

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6. “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.”

— Louis C.K.

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7. “I live for myself and answer to nobody.”

— Steve McQueen

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8. “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

— Ayn Rand

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9. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

— Oscar Wilde

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10. “I refuse to apologize for my ability – I refuse to apologize for my success – I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.”

— Ayn Rand

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11. “I’m not trying to make friends, I’m trying to make money.”

— Kevin O'Leary

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12. “Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.”

— Ayn Rand

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13. “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

14. “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.”

— Adam Smith

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15. “I am a very selfish person.”

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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