Ricardo Semler Quotes

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

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• As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Technology

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Feet
  • Stand

• This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Life
  • Me
  • Difference

• It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Me
  • Actor

• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Wish
  • Big
  • Heroes

• I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Creation

• In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Way
  • Forward
  • Speaking

• I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

  

  B. B. King
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hope

• I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • You
  • Watches

• Language is the dress of thought.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Language
  • Thought
  • Dress

• You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on - a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress - you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Night
  • Black
  • Change

• People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • People

• I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
  • Music
  • Friends

• I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

  

  Charley Pride
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Dreamer

• Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • People

• There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Time
  • World
  • Career

• Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Myself
  • Mistakes
  • Learned

• No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • People
  • Essentials
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