Ricardo Semler Quotes
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Adrian Gostick
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Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.
Burton Malkiel
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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.
Adrian Slywotzky
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Bobby Cox is one of the greatest managers of all time
Craig Biggio
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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.
Mike Figgis
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When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.
Geoffrey Nunberg
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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.
William A. Henry III
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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.
Reed Hastings
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I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.
Michael Rady
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Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
Simon Mawer
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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.
Rollie Fingers
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.
Steve Schirripa
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Sometimes you start a little further back from the starting line. And you're going to have to work a little bit harder, and push it faster to get to the finish. I'm willing to put in the work, to compensate for other things, to get ahead, to get to where I want to be.
Nick Newell
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Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
Essie Davis
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The key to management is to get rid of the managers.
Ricardo Semler
