Quotes About Vested Interest

#1. Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Richard M. Nixon

#2. Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old techniques, suspicion of innovation, resentment of competition and xenophobia.

Timothy C.W. Blanning

#4. When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you.

Brian O'Driscoll

#5. Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits and in forcing taxpayers to redeem government debt.

Murray Rothbard

#6. Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#7. Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

#8. Our politics, economics, advertising, and religions (New Age and Old) are awash in credulity. Those who have something to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discouraging skepticism,

Carl Sagan

#9. Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

Christa Wolf

#10. The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.

Al Gore

#11. Our ancestors have a vested interest in our wellbeing and so are more easily motivated to intercede for us and also are more closely connected to us.

Morgan Daimler

#12. There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Gore Vidal

#13. Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

Arianna Huffington

#14. The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#15. There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.

Veerappa Moily

#16. Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.

Molly Friedenfeld

#17. There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Errol Morris

#18. The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Francis Aungier

#19. I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

Sarah Schulman

#20. Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

Andrew Goodman

#21. In the case of "A Rape on Campus," the risk of being taken in was compounded by Ms. Erdely's approach. She was steered to "Jackie," as she referred to the University of Virginia student in question, by a party with a vested interest: a rape survivor and sexual assault activist on campus.

Anonymous

#22. Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Susan Sontag

#23. Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising.

David Ogilvy

#24. Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.

Arthur Koestler

#25. Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.

David Suzuki

#26. People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

Thomas Sowell

#27. There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Sean O'Casey

#28. My mom used to sell fabric and lace when I was younger. She would bring back these elaborate fabrics from Nigeria. I always enjoyed being around it. However, it wasn't until I started making music that I started taking a vested interest.

Tinie Tempah

#29. Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

Desmond Tutu

#30. I began to see then that when the government enters business, the citizens of India get cheated. The greatest repercussion of the government entering into business is that instead of safeguarding people from vested interests, they themselves become the vested interest.

Verghese Kurien

#31. If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest ... put the public interest above the vested interest.

Graeme Samuel

#32. God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

John Polkinghorne

#33. Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#34. ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#35. I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.

Dambisa Moyo

#36. Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#37. Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

Grover Norquist

#38. It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

Jeremy Paxman

#39. In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care.

Lester Bangs

#40. Your business and your life will change when you really, really get it that some people are not going to change, no matter what you do, and that still others have a vested interest in being destructive.

Henry Cloud

#41. There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

Sylvia Earle

#42. Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.

Alister E. McGrath

#43. Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

Peter Greenaway

#44. If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

Elon Musk

#45. Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

Tom Robbins

#46. Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

Lerone Bennett Jr.

#47. Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

Ralph Nader

#48. Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#49. Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

Robert A. Caro

#50. When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Brian P. Cleary

#51. Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.

George M. Gilbert

#52. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

John Maynard Keynes

#53. And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.

G. Edward Griffin

#54. Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#55. Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Ludwig Von Mises

#56. The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Albert Einstein

#57. The state is captive to vested interests.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

#58. The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

Walter Russell Mead