people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

The power of self-interest is still present in the believer

But, more specifically, you make a conscious choice to absorb the cost yourself.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live: and unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them.

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

My old friend, Gene Logsdon, who's a fine writer on agriculture, and lately a novelist, once asked an Amish factory owner, "Do you have a toxic effluent from your factory?" And the owner looked at him in horror. He said, "Our children play around this factory." If you had a local slaughterhouse patronized by local people, who could watch the slaughtering and butchering of their own animals, you wouldn't need the government to inspect for sanitation.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)

erring on the side of the client when it comes to fees. Because you're interested in a long-term relationship with a client, it is in your best interest to show them that you are more focused on helping them than you are in maximizing your short-term revenue.

It's not that they go out of their way to tick off their clients. It's just that they're so focused on saying and doing whatever is in the best interests of those clients that they stop worrying about the repercussions. They make themselves completely vulnerable, or naked, and don't try to protect themselves.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.