0 the act of considering the advantage to yourself when making decisions, and deciding to do what is best for you: --
1 consideration of advantages for yourself in making a decision, usually without worrying about its effect on others: --
2 a situation in which you consider the advantage to yourself when making decisions, and decide to do what is best for you: --
Conversely, highly competitive individuals may trust each other to act in ways that further their collective self-interest.
According to the rational actor model in economics, people are solely motivated by self-interest.
The effect of the unremitting self-interest of this sphere is to drive more and more of the characters into varieties of non-existence.
In so doing, they were motivated as much by self-interest as patriotic duty.
Neither is corruption a by-product of ruthless capitalism, which promotes self-interest and maximum economic growth as opposed to the interests of the community.
However, the relevant considerations will not necessarily be limited to (or even relate at all to) how well these packages serve the individual's self-interest.
It guards against legislative self-interest by pitting one set of legislators against the other, neutralizing one ambition with another.
The new government policies were now challenging dentists' small business self-interest as well as the professional ideology that defined their notions of patient interest.
