“Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.”
“Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.”
“If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.”
“Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.”
“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.”
“"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?”