There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest
Napoleon Bonaparte
One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
James Madison
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
François de La Rochefoucauld
For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered
Mira Komarovsky
We talk on principle, but we act on interest
Walter Savage Landor
There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
Oscar Wilde
The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest
Albert Einstein
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill