Sentences with phrase «by self interest»

I'm betting you've seen some lawyers needlessly escalate conflict (perhaps motivated by self interest....)

The Kyoto protocol was made the way it was by self interest and greed which to our eternal shame was in no small part Australian.

In each case some are illogical or motivated by self interest while others are not.

Not exact matches

So if craven self - interest is okay by you, it's okay by me.

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

Lulu, after all, embodies a sort of warm and communitarian capitalism; Rand's objectivist philosophy, by contrast, preaches the pursuit of rational self - interest and the inherent morality of laissez - faire capitalism.

Against our own self - interest, we get bogged down by shyness, self - consciousness, cynicism, pride, competitiveness, jealousy, and arrogance.

It is important to note, however, that their goals are often driven by self - interest and self - promotion.

There is an interesting empirical research by psychologist in the European Journal of Social Psychology that explores the relationship between passion and self - esteem.

The problem is doing what is ethical vs. acting out of self - interest can get commingled in an under - performing director's mind, or even a founder's mind, or even other directors» minds (who have been captured by the entrenched director colleague), without an objective measurement.

If there is no policy or, better yet, no measurement of actual performance and follow up accordingly, self - interest is perpetuated and complacency is allowed continue, by the very people who should be leading by example.

The IBM - VMware strategic hookup was driven by the mutual self - interest by two companies who see AWS, which appears to be en route to a $ 10 - billion - a-year cloud business, as an existential threat.

Households led by someone self - employed owed $ 8,026 in credit card debt and paid annual interest of $ 1,194.

U.S. households led by self - employed individuals pay $ 1,194 in credit card interest each year, compared with $ 843 for those who work for someone else, according to NerdWallet's analysis.

But such a message needs to be accompanied by clear signals that the US will strive to be a reliable and predictable partner, that it understands its interest in strong effective global institutions, and that it recognises that even self - interested nations can benefit from thoughtful diplomacy.

By causing Retrophin to recharacterize MSMB Healthcare's subscription as a loan, repay such loan with interest, and pay Shkreli a cash advance — all for his own benefit and for the benefit of MSMB Capital — Shkreli engaged in self - dealing and breached his duty of loyalty to Retrophin.

The state by state breakdown of self - interested salesmanship — NOT ADVICE — simply works against the interest of both the saver and the taxpayer.

That doesn't mean that these companies aren't also driven by self - interest.

When a fiduciary engages in self - dealing, they breach their duty by acting in their own interests rather than the interests of their client.

Your MAGI (modified adjusted gross income) is calculated by taking your AGI and adding back certain items — including student loan interest, IRA contributions, passive income or loss, and 1/2 of self - employment tax.

The ethical paradigm of neoclassical economics centers on «homo economicus,» who is driven by self - interest to seek the maximization of subjective material preferences — which is shown to be achievable (under highly restrictive assumptions) by competitive markets.

I've learned some hard investing lessons over the years including that there is a lot of conflicting information on investing and retirement available, and many potential advisers (but not all) are motivated by self - interest.

They're allowed to give you self - interested advice — for example, by selling you the class of mutual - fund shares that pays the highest commissions instead of lower - cost shares in the same fund.

When founders believe their investors will do right by them, even when it may be against their narrow, short - term self interest, and investors believe the same about founders, it's magic.

Clearly a commissioned human adviser can be influenced by self - interest due to sales quotas, trade commissions, bonus programs and so forth.

Away from the mob, a man of «Honour» is flogged at a whipping post by «Vilany,» assisted by an ape in devilishly flamboyant garb, while the figure of «Honesty,» stripped naked, is bludgeoned by «Self Interest» atop a wheel of fortune as a minister intones a prayer over him.

It is a vicious circle, paid for by consumers, that ensures the dairy self - interest is upheld.

The four schools of law have clear rulings that on no account should an individual or group of Muslims attempt to change the government of an Islamic state through the use of arms and violence, because to allow such a possibility invites civil strife, private wars, and the abuse of Islam by factions who use theology to justify their self - interested rebellions and usurpations.

For in America today, the usual secularist reaction in dealing with any message brought to society by a particular community is automatically to assume that the message is from a «special interest group,» one whose motives are those of self - interest, even when hidden behind a rhetoric of altruism.

From 1518 on, it is the particularity and concreteness of God's presence that now foreclose idolatry; the true God, who by definition can not be used, is the God who makes Himself available as He chooses, in the flesh born of Mary and the Church's sacramental practice, not in our religious speculation and self - interest.

It's interesting to see how people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.

The problem is, it has been misinterpreted by millions of people with self - serving interests, instead of prayerfully and humbly seeking GOD for direction.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

It's all driven by self - interest.

Crippled by low self - esteem, Joyce believed no one would ever want her, and she married «the first young guy that came along that showed any interest».

The arguments of both sides are tainted by self - interest.

We get some sense of that variety in the Psalms, where we learn how capacious is the conversation to which we are invited by an infinite God, who is inexplicably interested in our small selves.

In my formative years, I saw excessive use of alcohol and tobacco by adults who were self - absorbed, bored with life, and, in fact, not very interested in their children.

Divorce is a disruption of the collective interests of the family by the self - interest of one or both of the spouses.

By prizing open spaces for all cultures - not patronizingly, but because they represent humanity's endowment - we can reverse the retreat into enclaves of narrow self - interest and the seclusion of identity politics.

The protection or pursuit of «gold» by nations, that is, of economic self - interest in a modern (i.e., capitalist) mode, is not the primary cause of modern wars.

was so vital for Bonhoeffer that he lost interest when the two elements were separated: Christology not qualified by something like non-religious interpretation became an unrelated entity and suffered a fatal loss of reality; nonreligious Christianity without Christocentrism became a Sisyphean endeavour of modem man to adjust to a newly discovered self and world.24

Nevertheless, without the spiritual and moral resources which prayer exists to heighten, the action required for dealing with such issues is likely to go on being as limited and as misdirected by self - interest as we now see it.

It is excellent to the extent that precisely because it is guided by that interest, it is self - critically concerned with the truthfulness of its discernment and response to God.

The recommendations of the Club of Rome were heavily criticized by business interests who had most to lose, but their claims served only to illustrate how much political and economic ideology is driven by self - interest.

Cynicism and moral anarchism, whether expressed in crimes against persons and property by the dispossessed or in self - interested manipulation by the better - off, are, if I read modern history right, more likely a prelude to authoritarianism if not fascism.

Since then, successive British, Jordanian and Israeli governments, guided by their own self - interests, have maintained the Status Quo Agreement, upholding Greek pre-eminence.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

Our technology is at last giving us what we've always wanted — nameless, faceless, isolated individuals living by bureaucratic rules, entitlements and balanced self - interest.

Church pronouncements and responses to this issue have projected the message of a self - interested, defensive, and suspect institution, messages that are read and understood very accurately by the general public.