The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. Robert Frost

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. Graham Greene

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. John Milius

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. John Steinbeck