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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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I just write mechanical things.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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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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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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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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Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
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We need a resilient, well-capitalized, well-regulated financial system that is strong enough to withstand even severe shocks and support economic growth by lending through the economic cycle.
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Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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There is a lot going on that might be giving us anxiety & stress. Never be ashamed to reach out.
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I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
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Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.
