Tuvalu's interest is not self serving.

Rational self interest is not always the dominating factor.

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

Today, they receive the sharper impulse of self interest.

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.

The self interest in upholding them together is also clear.

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

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

This is a matter of morality, security and enlightened self interest.

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

To add insult to injury, self interest has been portrayed as altruism.

International cooperation is in our self interest and needs to be mustered.

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?

A crucial general principle in this respect is the principle on self interest threat a self interest threat occurs when a director could benefit from a financial or other interest in the enterprise as a result of unethical behavior or lack of independence (FEE, 2003b).

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Like economists, you know, their definition of rational, that we all act out of our own economic self interest.

Well, it may already have occurred to you that Islam means surrender, or submission of self interest to the will of Allah.

It will also require a commitment to the collective will and a retreat from preoccupation with self interest and narrow national agendas.

In a world of interconnected threats and challenges, it is in each country's self interest that all of them are addressed effectively.

And there's something dangerous about glamour throughout most of history. 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.

Number two, all of The 99, when they first get their stone, or their power, abuse it they use it for self interest.

In a world of interconnected threats and opportunities, it is in each country's self interest that all of those challenges be addressed effectively.

You don't work in your self interest all the time, because when emotion comes into it, the wiring changes in the way it functions.

In short, mainstream economics and the concept of homo economicus recognizes only half of what makes us human. We are undoubtedly motivated by self interest.

Egoism and self interest prevented them from realizing that Puerto Rico and the United States were married and their divorce would be harmful to both.

I've heard what I consider an extraordinary thing that I've only heard a little bit in the two previous TEDs, and what that is is an interweaving and an interlarding, an intermixing, of a sense of social responsibility in so many of the talks global responsibility, in fact, appealing to enlightened self interest, but it goes far beyond enlightened self interest.

This approach is based on the assumption that, if everyone is fully compensated for the net benefits that they confer on others, individuals pursuing their own self interest will, as Adam Smith put it, be led, as if by an invisible hand, to serve the public interest as well. According to this view, everyone is Homo economicus a self interested, fully rational individualist.

As the philosopher Peter Singer showed in his bookOne World, a united front against the biggest problems facing the world will require a fundamental shift in attitude away from parochialism and toward a redefinition of self interest. Enlightened self interest can be state based, but interests would be re defined to encompass universal principles such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

That is to say thank you, thank you. That is to say, remember my whole view of morality is that it boils down to self interest.

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.

We can make anything happen. We can I agree with what was described a few days ago, about this idea that people work in their self interest.

Now none of these companies are doing this out of altruism they're doing it because they're learning that a certain kind of sharing is in their self interest.

NEW HAVEN Adam Smith famously wrote of the invisible hand, by which individuals pursuit of self interest in free, competitive markets advances the interest of society as a whole. And Smith was right Free markets have generated unprecedented prosperity for individuals and societies alike.

The Victorian values that Thatcher sought to foster fell afoul of the unrestrained celebration of material wealth that her rule brought about. The moral society, based on decent self interest, that Thatcher hoped to establish became the greedy society, based on coarse self regard.

And also because that's where, in terms of our own self interest, we finally begin to grasp our ability to respond, our responsibility to the rest of the world.

Nowadays, the impact of disease in one country is ultimately felt by all. Any effective response, therefore, must be grounded in a sense of global solidarity and enlightened self interest.