Selfishness or selflessness

"He didn't want to be great, but to be thought great. He didn't want to build, but to be admired as a builder. He borrowed from others in order to make an impression on others. There's our actual selflessness. It's his ego he's betrayed and given up. But everybody calls him selfish."

Rand, A., 1993 (First ed. 1943), The Fountainhead, Centennial Edition, Signet, p. 605.