Rational self interest is not always the dominating factor.

Do you think they're there pursuing their self interest?

If we can provide an energy source cheaper than from coal, all the nations, in their own economic self interest, will choose it over coal.

It means surrender of self interest to the will of Allah.

So you're building on something that is not pure self interest.

This is all about self interest that adds up to more.

Enlightened self interest, because if that economic divergence continues for another 40 years, combined with social integration globally, it will build a nightmare for our children.

That's absolutely the right thing, for people to follow their self interest.

It is enlightened self interest for us to work with other countries.

And that insured that we could move this forward and it would have both the self interest of Kiribati as well as the self interest of the world.

Today if we are asked what our self interest is in doing this?

The radiologists were, in turn, criticized for protecting their own financial self interest.

How could it ever be adaptive for any organism to overcome self interest?

Micro is that people, individual actors are acting out of their own self interest.

We need compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self interest to get ourselves serious.

Now I'm big on speaking to people's self interest because we're all wired for that.

Politics is partly profane, it's partly about self interest, but politics is also about sacredness.

Economic meltdown.

They're more likely to delay choosing procrastinate even when it goes against their best self interest.

But it is within our self interest to understand the topography of our lives unto ourselves.

When the witches cast a magic spell on you, it was not in your self interest it was to get you to act against your interest.

I agree with what was described a few days ago, that people work in their self interest.

And I don't have enough time to talk about all of them, but think about self interest.

But today, finally, after economic reforms, and economic growth,

Second, economic growth.

Economic development forum.

Self.

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And it was primarily because Kiribati realized that this was in their own self interest to do this.

Which in my experience means communication that manages to speak to and expand our concept of self interest.

That means that people are beginning the first step, which is acting out of their own self interest.

They were taught that self interest was a raging sea that was a sure path to eternal damnation.

The self you are self aware.

First interest

Interest rate

Interest expense.

National interest.

100 interest.

Professional interest?

Interest. Weekly.

When we climb that staircase, self interest fades away, we become just much less self interested, and we feel as though we are better, nobler and somehow uplifted.

The government's economic policy is credited for Japan's postwar economic success.

These are grim economic times, fellow TEDsters, grim economic times indeed.