"It was self-interest," said Sean Ryan, the chief executive of Listen.com of what broke the 16-month logjam in his negotiations with Universal.
He carefully picks apart the fable of the noble Briton, the altruistic coloniser who always plays by the rules; in fact it was self-interest and a sense of superiority that characterised the era of empire.
"I think it was self-interest to go on prime time to pump up her future business," said Matthew McCall, president of the Penn Financial Group, an investment advisory firm that holds muni bonds.
Only national governments like France and Qatar have the wherewithal to offer the protection, security, and financial rewards necessary to lure away acolytes like Manaf Tlass, calculating correctly that it was self-interest that had bound them to the regime in the first place.
The founder of capitalist theory assumed that it was self-interest and the pursuit of gain that motivated entrepreneurs.
"Sure it's self-interest if staying in business to help the hungry is self-interested," said Avram Guroff, a senior vice president at ACDI/VOCA, which ranked sixth in monetization sales last year.
It is self-interest masquerading as the national interest.
Sometimes it's self-interest, reckless hunger and perfidy.
It's self-interest, because 87percentt of Republican voters support Trump.
Indeed, it is self-interest, rather than an affinity for Mr. Bloomberg, that is driving the process.
It's self-interest: making the city a good place to go to school both in perception and reality".
