Sentences with phrase «vested self interest»

«I love the smell of vested self interest in the morning»....

Everybody has a self interest, some people have an interesting in stopping the advance of these disruptive technologies, but probably you're going to be unsuccessful.

Can we be certain the state has no self interest in his demise and our ascendancy, or worse, the opposite?

In doing these you have self interest too — to attain good name — ok, but leads to good.

Not exact matches

Although Beijing may ultimately have self - interested motives, its work in the Arctic may actually prove beneficial since the Chinese are able to provide capital and joint venture opportunities to countries that lack the necessary funds, Holland said.

But while the world's second - largest economy, which self - identified as a «Near - Arctic State» in its new white paper, may have it's own economic and foreign policy interests in mind, experts cautioned that doesn't mean a geopolitical standoff is coming.

And as U.S. economic growth becomes self - sustaining, interest rates can be allowed to rise, which would offer more competition to non-income paying assets such as gold.

I've always been very interested in self - improvement.

No doubt, an interesting argument could be had about whether a future of self - driving, electrically propelled automobiles could be as clean and efficient as better public transit.

Known as a self - proclaimed geek who said he was uncomfortable in his native France and hadn't been back in years, Karpeles became interested in bitcoin when a customer of his web - hosting services wanted to pay in the virtual currency.

If we are one of those directors, do we have the courage and integrity to ignore our own self - interest and step down?

A self - described «enemy of interest rates», he has repeatedly called on the central bank to lower rates to boost growth, even though inflation in running at double digits.

When it does, it'll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self - interest.»

But as a backup, we have commercial law and various regulations to give makers and sellers of products good reason, from a self - interested point of view, to treat consumers well.

During the course of the campaign, Jokowi has drawn closer to some of the entrenched interests that he is, in theory, running against — showing that for now, perhaps, there are limits to just how high Indonesia's self - made, corruption - busting leader from the slums can climb on his own.

Wise businesspeople have the humility to seek out long - term, positive - sum collaborations with others, and are willing to sacrifice some of their immediate self - interest for long - term gains.

It's interesting to note that, so far, the major companies testing self - driving cars have all seen their vehicles involved in accidents.

Even worse, if the IRS determines your misclassification was «willful,» you could owe the IRS the full amount of income tax that should have been withheld (with an adjustment if the employee has paid or pays part of the tax), the full amount of both the employer's and employee's share of FICA taxes (possibly with an offset if the employee paid self - employment taxes), plus interest and penalties.

He also is self - effacing and secure enough to acknowledge that if his name were Smith or Jones, no one in China would be interested.

It might have been interesting to wait until after to say what they had done, as the announcement could be taken as edging toward self - interest.

So what we have here is a classic «social dilemma» — a situation in which everyone could do better if everybody held back, but any given individual (or in this case, corporation) has reason to act in a more straightforwardly self - interested way.

When you demonstrate that you have their self - interest in mind, they are more likely to trust you.»

Bernhard said other U.S. states — California, Arizona, Michigan — had shown an interest in self - driving trucks, but more states would need to get on board before the federal government took up the issue.

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.

Wagner offers no broad policy prescriptions in the interview to fix these problems in America's schools, but if you're an individual parent or teacher interested in encouraging an innovative outlook in your kids, he has lots of ideas (less scheduled time, more unstructured play or self - driven exploration, for instance).

Car technology has become a prime area of interest for Silicon Valley companies ranging from Google Inc, which has built a prototype self - driving car, to electric car - maker Tesla Motors Inc..

There might be a hint of Evan Spiegel — the Snapchat CEO who turned down Facebook's $ 3 - billion takeover offer in 2014 — in Green's interest in forging his own path, but Brown says it's a sign of the self - determination his friend has always had.

Consumers are still, in the end, pragmatic and self - interested (and finding a decent hotel room in Manhattan can be such a prize that it wouldn't matter if Rodrigo Duterte's name were on the building).

As we've previously reported, investors» interest this year has shifted away from consumer devices to niche and enterprise hardware, such as aerospace technologies, tech to power self - driving vehicles, and industrial robotics.

It clashes with emerging structural concepts like open - source or results - only work environments, and with the fact that, as Pink writes, «for a surprisingly large number of people, jobs have become more complex, more interesting, and more self - directed.»

Likely this is the reason a small self - funded startup can release a technology that not only competes with a product that had a multi-billion dollar budget but can exceed it in so many interesting ways.

The CMHC boss had just given testimony at the House of Commons Finance Committee that effectively called out critics of tighter mortgage - lending rules as self - interested.

Uber executives have voiced interest in self - driving cars in the past.

Your coach has done a disservice to you, and to your team, from his self - interested desire to place the blame onto your shoulders.

Irregular income and business expenses could help explain why self - employed individuals have more credit card debt, which leads to higher interest rate costs.

Biz Carson: Before you started running the self - driving car show at Uber and before Google, you'd already had an interest in self - driving vehicles.

Congress has legitimate interest in protecting users subject to the ad revenue - driven whims of a supposedly self - regulating tech platform, and, unfortunately for Facebook, big tech regulation is starting to look like something most people can get behind.

Google has hired some of the talent behind Tesla's «Autopilot» mode, highlighting the company's interest in self - driving car technology.

For example, on the most current version of the retrofitted self - driving Lexus, a mounted laser has about a 12 - degree field of view that it uses to essentially zoom in on details of points of interest.

From what I have witnessed, the Foundation with Buterin at its helm, has exercised a great deal of rational thought in its decision making process, and I have not seen any evidence that it has chosen self - interest over the betterment of the Ethereum community as a whole.

Americans believe self - interested leaders have put their needs ahead of students, leading to a college - completion crisis.

On the other, as buyers, they have a strong self - interest in paying the lowest possible price.

• 1/2 of self - employment tax (self - employed individuals are required to pay «payroll» taxes that an employer would otherwise take; these extra taxes can be deducted from AGI, but are included in MAGI) • Student loan interest • Tuition and fees deduction • Qualified tuition expenses • Passive income or loss • Rental losses • IRA contributions and taxable Social Security payments • Exclusion for income from U.S. savings bonds • Exclusion for adoption expenses (under 137)

As for Europe, it never has pushed its own self - interest in the World Bank or the IMF.

«If you want to repair the world, you have to motivate people through their own self - interest.

Obvious self - interest aside, Dunning and others who have issued similar warnings are right, to a point.

«We were having dinner at a restaurant near the office, and [Levandowski] told me that it would be nice to create a new self - driving car startup and that Uber would be interested in buying the team responsible for the LiDAR we were developing at Google.»

Having lived through the corporate crisis of 2002 - 03 and the financial system meltdown of 2008 - 09, the next generation of leaders has learned the pitfalls of charismatic, ego - driven leaders who focus on their self - interest, and is prepared to lead entirely on behalf of their organizations and the impact they can have.

For example, I have a friend who is a self - proclaimed «foody» who wants to start a restaurant, but really has no interest or skills on the business side.

«From its inception, Panera has utilized the principles that some call conscious capitalism, and which we at Panera like to call «enlightened self - interest.»