Ricardo Semler Quotes
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
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Growing up, I just wore whatever fit. I was going through crazy growth spurts, so I could never really take my style too seriously.
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
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The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.
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Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity in this environment, it may be necessary to delay our production growth to match the market.
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As a player, I was very lucky to have so many good managers in my career. I remember the first two at Lecce: Eugenio Fascetti and Carlo Mazzone. They were very important for me and my growth.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.
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Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.
