Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“George Bernard Shaw once said: “Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
I hate being human, not the fact I hate my humanity. Because I'm in this prison, my bones holding everything together. Breathing… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you wish to be more influential, spend more time being interested than you do trying to be interesting. — Josh Hinds Copy Share Image
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Make choices that take your mind, body, and soul into consideration. You are the only person who knows whats best for you.… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image