When the image of a less benevolent father is "transferred" to the workplace (Bing 2004; Pelligrini and Scandura 2006), we expect that benevolence is less likely to characterize the ideal leader for Chinese employees than morality.
There's certainly a twinkle in Uncle Walt's blue eyes, but it's not the glimmer of benevolence you'd expect from the man who brought joy to countless children as the creator of Mickey Mouse and the Magic Kingdom.
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner," he wrote, "but from their regard to their own interest.
It is a point that Adam Smith emphasised in "The Wealth of Nations": "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest".
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest," Smith wrote.
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer and the baker that we expect our dinner," Adam Smith famously observed, "but from their regard to their own interest".
As Adam Smith wrote in "The Wealth of Nations," "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest".
Here, in a book of half a million words, he married man's ineluctable drive for improvement with the concept of self-interest to set forth the primary driver of all economic activity: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest".
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
