Jay-Z is always thinking of new ways to improve his business or personal self.
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In setting strategy, communicating vision, and reaching decisions, common purpose comes first, personal self-interest last.
When you try to have this division between your personal self and your professional self, what you really are is stiff.
"It's almost taboo to have a loan on your personal self, " says Puneet Matta, head of wealth management for Credit Suisse in India.
Although Mr Portillo has never embellished his original confession, he has woven this part of his biography into a tedious narrative of personal self-discovery.
The Burns award recognises an individual or group who has saved, improved or enriched the lives of others, through personal self-sacrifice, selfless service or charitable work.
We'll look at state pensions, defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, personal pensions and self-invested personal pensions.
Nasar weaves people, places, politics, banking, social injustice, war, depression, recession, personal relations, personalities, sex, anti-Semitism, self-doubt, physical impairment, espionage, poverty, personal finance, self-delusion, self-interest, and much more in a book that educates as thoroughly and gracefully as it entertains.
When you get to ideas of personal identity and self, things get even stranger.
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The two big questions about Mr Fedorov's personal efforts concern self-interest and effectiveness.
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan has been praised for his messages of personal responsibility and self-sufficiency, and for his dedication to the civil rights struggles of African Americans.
Change social conditions that make people feel anonymous, instead supporting conditions that make people feel special, so that they have a sense of personal value and self worth.
The fact is that Rand gets harder to take as one grows older and concerns about those around us become more important than our own personal project of self development.
And American pride in personal initiative and self reliance?
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Rather they come to that point through a process of ongoing reflection, personal inquiry and brave self-honesty.
Others, like "The Vertical Hour, " are deeply personal domestic dramas with a self-evident but (mostly) unobtrusive political context.
Just consider the latest hoax infecting news feeds, the one where users posted legalistic gobbledygook declaring self-protective personal copyright protection.
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Living alone allows people to pursue individual freedom, exert personal control and go through self-realization, but these people have fewer children.
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We have already seen some of this in the proliferation of self-directed personal retirement accounts like the IRA and the 401k.
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At a time when other management gurus were obsessed with how to build a better organisation, Mr Covey argued that personal character, purpose and self-discipline were what mattered.
We remember the Americans who put country above self, and set personal grievances aside for the greater good.
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Though the trio has had its share of adolescent mayhem, on the group's latest album, their lyrics are more self-deprecating, personal, and psychoanalytical.
My mother and the grandparents who raised me instilled the values of self-reliance and personal responsibility that remain the cornerstone of the American idea.
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Mr Finkelstein's central claim is that American Jews' feelings about Israel were always guided more by self-interest and personal values than by Jewish solidarity.
So the importance of self-tracking is personal to him, not only because of that but also in how it helped his dad lose weight and manage his health.
You cannot overrate the importance of self-awareness and personal insight.
Mitt Romney became the Republican nominee because Herman Cain, the only true pro-growth candidate in the primary race that was actually competent to do the job of president, self-destructed over personal issues.
McGuffey's Readers, the books on which generations of American children were raised, have plenty of stories treating initiative, hard work and entrepreneurialism as virtues, but just as many stories praising the virtues of self-restraint, personal integrity and concern for those who depend on you.
At a time when it has never been more tempting or accepted to pursue narrow self-interest and personal ambition, all of you here remind us that there are few things that are more fundamentally American than doing what we can to make a difference in the lives of others.
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