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

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

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.

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.

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.

If the government's fiscal survival depends on it having to raise money from its own people, such a government is driven by self interest to govern in a more enlightened fashion.

What I'm going to offer you is a recipe, a combination of the two forces that changed the world for good, which is the alliance of compassion and enlightened self interest.

Enlightened self interest should send business leaders to the development table, to be co architects of development strategies, to join in public private partnerships and, as appropriate, to engage in philanthropy.

The same is true of the pharmaceutical industry. Share buybacks can sometimes be legitimate, but on other occasions they do not seem justified especially when considered from the standpoint of enlightened self interest.

I urge every world leader, as well as my fellow business leaders, to embrace this opportunity to act in our own enlightened self interest and to work together in the spirit of real partnership.

Enlightened self interest must overcome such political obstacles. The longer that world leaders resist the overwhelming need for reform, the worse the world s future economic and financial prospects not to mention its security situation will be.

Remember, I have been talking about, essentially philanthropy the love of humankind, the individual humankind and the individual humankind that can bring that kind of love translated into action, translated, in some cases, into enlightened self interest.

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.

A peaceful separation agreement would require international peacekeepers with contributions from many powers, including Islamic states, India, China, and Japan. As stability in the Middle East is essential to them, this is a matter of enlightened self interest.

If there is a moral to this story, it is this a common flag, language, or national history can certainly help to induce people to work together in harmony for a shared cause. But so can enlightened self interest.

Tuvalu's interest is not self serving.

As the University of Michigan s Mark Mizruchi points out in a recent book, the American corporate elite in the postwar era had an ethic of civic responsibility and enlightened self interest. They cooperated with trade unions and favored a strong government role in regulating and stabilizing markets.

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.

But everyone that I knew had an interest in the primacy of the written word in terms of nurturing a democracy, nurturing an enlightened life.

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.

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).

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And yet there is a good reason why the pharmaceutical industry can and should play a major role in financing something like a common Innovation Fund to provide financing for early stage research into solving the problem of antimicrobial resistance. And that reason is one that I became familiar with during my years at Goldman Sachs enlightened self interest.

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

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

Africa can only be transformed by enlightened leaders.

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.

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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.

His lightnings enlightened the world the earth saw, and trembled.