The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not as popularly supposed alcoholism it's egotism.
Yes forget your weakness whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism it is selfishness after. all for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego their identity.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men kindness and generosity openness honesty understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest sharpness greed acquisitiveness meanness egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not as popularly supposed alcoholism it's egotism.
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.