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• n  taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others
• n  concern for your own interests and welfare

• To those who will never follow in his footsteps, submerged as they are in a world of cynicism, self-interest and frantic consumption, nothing could be more vicariously gratifying .
• We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals," FDR said in 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression.
• Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way but only on behalf of those who can pay.

• opportunism
• self-seeking
• expedience
• egoism
• egocentrism
• self-concern
• self-centeredness

• altruism

News & Articles

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• Storage, scrap sale add to MVPD woes
  MOUNT VERNON -- It's not that the purchase of parking meters and parts by Mount Vernon Police Chief Mike Merrilees and then Cpl. Robert "Kit" Morgan at a city auction was illegal or against city policy, it was what happened next that continues to leave the perception that Merrilees and Morgan put their own self-interest ahead of public trust.
  June 11, 2013 - Mount Vernon News
• IPOs trickle through pipeline, attest to region’s strength
  On the whole the self-interest of entrepreneurs and investors to take a company public also serves the public interest.
  June 9, 2013 - Seattle Times
• Five Best Friday Columns
  Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian on the courage of whistleblowers Having revealed in two separate reports the extent of the U.S. government's massive surveillance apparatus, Glenn Greenwald praises those who compromise their safety to expose government wrongdoing: "They did not act with any self-interest in mind. The opposite is true: they undertook great personal risk and sacrifice for one ...
  June 7, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in ABC News
  President Obama says men and women in uniform represent "best of America." "Why, in an age when so many have acted only in pursuit of narrowest self-interest, have the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of this generation volunteered all...
• John McCain in Guardian Unlimited
  I am optimistic, I am enthusiastic and I am confident that I can win this election. But more importantly, I can lead this nation and motivate all Americans to serve a cause greater than their self-interest,McCain said.