Ricardo Semler Quotes
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The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
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These people vary from some of our senior managers who are helping getting the project office set up to construction workers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bobby Cox is one of the greatest managers of all time
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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.
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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
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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.
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The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
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I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
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Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
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That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.
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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.
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I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.
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I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction. It's problematic because you don't want to tell people don't aid, don't help, when people feel a need to.
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Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.
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I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.
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If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.
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The key to management is to get rid of the managers.
