Ricardo Semler Quotes

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

Ricardo Semler

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• The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Control
  • Conversation
  • Companies

• These people vary from some of our senior managers who are helping getting the project office set up to construction workers.

  

  John Britton
  • People
  • Helping
  • Office

• There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each inanimate instrument could do its own work.

  

  Aristotle
  • Work
  • Imagine
  • Slaves

• Anything that I wanted to do in my career that I wanted to do always worked out. The stuff I got talked into always failed. All the stuff I was talked into, by brilliant managers, because it always came down to, "Know how much money you'll make?" And then it would just fail.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Money
  • Career
  • Failed

• It seems to me as I reviewed the literature that, with few exceptions, the more confident were the prescriptions about how to behave with ethics and integrity, the further removed was the author from the life and work of the everyday manager.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • Literature
  • Everyday
  • Ethics

• Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Want
  • Office
  • Fronts

• Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Future
  • Rules
  • Congress

• I think that many managers we meet do take their roles as leaders very seriously and do a lot for their people. And they try to hone their skills by reading books and attending training. But then again, the number one problem is we get busy. We tend to forget that collectively we can accomplish more than we could ever do alone, and we need our people to feel a part of a positive, productive culture.

  

  Adrian Gostick
  • Accomplish
  • Managers
  • Collectively

• The fact is that middle managers have an effective veto power over whatever risk management system is created. If they don't buy it, it won't happen.

  

  Adrian Slywotzky
  • Power
  • Happen
  • Managers

• Bobby Cox is one of the greatest managers of all time

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Greatest
  • Managers
  • Bobby Cox

• It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Actors
  • Difficult
  • Rich

• When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

  

  Geoffrey Nunberg
  • Fashion
  • Managers
  • Rugged

• In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.

  

  William A. Henry III
  • Dream
  • Education
  • Mean

• The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Figures
  • Outcomes
  • Managers

• I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

  

  Michael Rady
  • School
  • Theater
  • Managers

• Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • University
  • Managers
  • Became

• That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

  

  Rollie Fingers
  • Running
  • Decision
  • Numbers

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Reason

• There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Trying
  • Imagine

• If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

  

  Catherine Yass
  • People
  • Way
  • Artist

• The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • Managers