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Example sentences for: self-interest

How can you use “self-interest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest.
Akst reasons as follows: 1) When markets are efficient it is in everyone's self-interest to passively invest in index funds; 2) When everyone passively invests in index funds, markets will no longer be efficient; 3) Therefore, index investing leads to inefficient markets.
George W. Bush's campaign theme represents a vision of government that balances compassion against self-interest, just as Bill Clinton evoked individual responsibility as a counterweight to government benevolence in 1992.
His allegiance to the country, however, overrode his political self-interest."
Culturebox would urge consumers to have faith in the power of corporate self-interest to protect them, at least in non-monopolistic situations, except that she's not convinced that that's what's really causing the general public to wax wroth.