Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce
If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. Douglas Adams
If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. Arnold Bennett
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Thomas Carlyle
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell
The ego is not master in its own house. Sigmund Freud
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism. Harold S. Geneen
The ”sensitiveness” claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. Marcel Proust
Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back. Helen Hayes