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Definition of Self-Interest

Self-Interest

  1. Private interest; the interest or advantage of one's self.

Self-Interest Quotations

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Self-Interest Translations

self-interest in Swedish is egennytta

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