Quotes About Interests

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.

Just because he likes the same bizzaro crap as you doesn't mean he's your soul mate.

She didn't change her priorities, she just changed her source of entertainment.

Never marry someone who doesn't love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.

awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

The divergence is evident in that journos worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than the judgment of their readers. Compare this to a healthy system, say, that of restaurants. As we saw in Chapter 8, restaurant owners worry about the opinion of their customers, not those of other restaurant owners, which keeps them in check and prevents the business from straying collectively away from its interests.

This visible tension between individual and collective interests is new in history…

We saw the trade-off between the interests of the collective and those of the individual.

we would see that their wishes and hopes are almost invariably at someone else's expense.

That awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

The freer Nero's time, the more compelled he felt to compensate for lost time in filling gaps in his natural interests

politicians whose interests are not lined up with those of the people they represent.

la conciencia de un problema no significa mucho, sobre todo cuando están en juego intereses personales o instituciones interesadas.

The agency problem (or principal-agent problem) also manifests itself in the misalignment of interests in transactions: a vendor in a one-shot transaction does not have his interests aligned to yours—and so can hide stuff from you.

would not have been strongly drawn to such pursuits anyway.

It is evaluative praise that does not serve a child's interests. Appreciative praise, in contrast, can be productive both in supporting self-esteem and in reinforcing desired behavior.

But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals who neither love nor understand him

It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who don't like or understand him.

Obviously good economics is not always good politics.

El vídeo después de la televisión La televisión no es vulgar y lasciva porque la gente que compone la audiencia sea vulgar y lasciva. La televisión es así simplemente porque las personas suelen ser muy similares en sus intereses vulgares y lascivos, y ampliamente diferentes en sus intereses refinados, estéticos y nobles. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests." —David Foster Wallace

Sin embargo, ofrecer simplemente más variedad no cambia la demanda. Hay que ayudar a los consumidores a encontrar los nichos que se adaptan a sus necesidades e intereses particulares.