So when DAF got into financial trouble, ABN Amro looked after its own interests first.
Job number one is for everyone at RBS to put our customers' interests first.
But like Mr Sarkozy he seems ready to put future interests first, at least for the time being.
Unfortunately, since agents don't get paid unless the deal goes through, sometimes they'll put their own interests first.
"I hope our legacy is that we put Alaskans' interests first, " Palin said.
There have also been criticisms that countries are putting their own interests first.
Investors want to feel that their provider is unbiased and puts their interests first, understands them and shares their values.
And they know that Washington has not always put their interests first.
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Recognize that every investment firm is a for-profit enterprise that, despite anything it may say in its glossy marketing materials, likely puts its own interests first.
The right of private companies to put commercial interests first.
These three telling examples, Facebook, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, demonstrate an entrenched Wall Street culture that neglects and takes advantage of its customers and always, and we mean always, will put its own interests first.
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When Mr Mubarak met a group of intellectuals this week, he listened to their passionate talk about the need to confront the West but replied that Egyptians had to recognise their weaknesses and put national interests first.
While I deeply regret the unfair and misleading attacks on Susan Rice in recent weeks, her decision demonstrates the strength of her character, and an admirable commitment to rise above the politics of the moment to put our national interests first.
EU, with no security commitments in Asia, saw no reason not to put its commercial interests there first.
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The row over the early payment of bonuses at Merrill Lynch shows yet again that insiders' interests come first (those to BofA staff, however, are likely to shrivel).
Health Minister Paul Burstow, who is a Lib Dem MP, said there had been major changes already to the proposed legislation ensuring patients' interests came first and services remained integrated.
The Russian government has many interests but its first priority, like any government, is survival.
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And of course everybody knows that Plaid Cymru as a party in Wales would always put the interests of Wales first.
Fiduciary duty is generally defined as a requirement that the client's interests be put first and that conflicts of interest be avoided.
This year, he was one of four people who determined the horses that would be individual betting interests in the first round of the people.
At both the manufacturer level and in retailing, success belongs to those businesses which curate with an intense eagle-eye that puts customer interests firmly in first place.
Corporate America is replete with examples of companies that are far more successful than their competitors not despite their commitment to high overarching missions worthy of being served and outstanding records for putting the interests of customers first but because of them.
The family, which still has control, puts the interests of the firm first.
And they expect you to put aside your ego, work with the new president they elected and put the interests of the country first.
As even former Obama economic guru and Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summer has observed, sovereign wealth funds (SWF) serve the interests of the sovereign first, and profit second.
After all, an honest firm that puts the interests of its clients first and has no hidden financial dealings should have no fear of being considered a fiduciary.
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Now is the time to put the interests of the whole society first.
He has a duty to look out first for the interests of the nation as a whole and those of the men and women - Hispanic-Americans and others alike - who serve in its defense.
But precedent suggests that Spain will look first to its own interests, if money proves tight.
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