self-seeker

There are other types,—the schemer and the self-seeker, whose matrimonial ventures are only intended to advance worldly interests.

He was no greedy self-seeker, and despised the avenues whereby many of his contemporaries advanced to wealth and position.

He had been a self-seeker of that notorious kind that achieves worldly success without much thought for others.

Personally Desportes appears to have been a self-seeker and a sycophant; not without good nature, but covetous, intriguing, corrupt, given to base compliances.

The method of the political boss, the aristocrat, the self-seeker, the monopolist—even in the use of thugs, private armies, spies, and provocateurs—differs little from the methods proposed by Bakounin in his Alliance.