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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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
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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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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
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There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there.
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Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.
