Ricardo Semler Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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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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I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.
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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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Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
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It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.
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Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.
