[musername]

>I work at Disney and when I look to the television monitors I see ‘inspirational’ quotes that tell me that selfishness is desirable.

What's that got to do with your workplace?

Selfishness is desire. It has just the negative meaning because it is either considered rude to call others selfish unless it's too much selfishness, or because it is a common selfishness, at which point it's only selfish against a third party. Just my interpretation.

[bdkoepke]

Perhaps encouraging narcissism would be a better way to phrase that. Our society seems to be increasingly encouraging this type of behaviour...