Ricardo Semler Quotes

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

Ricardo Semler

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• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fear

• I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Live
  • Want
  • Everything

• At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • American
  • Future

• Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Simplicity

• If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Money
  • May
  • Strong

• People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Chance
  • Lucky

• My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • History
  • High

• President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Lost
  • Lead

• I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choice

• After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Movement
  • Baltimore

• Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Future
  • Community

• And if you a G you a G-G-G. My name is Onika, you can call me Nicki.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Names
  • Ifs
  • Ass

• More people are using the Internet and searching for information and things to buy, and they want to know where these places are.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • People
  • Want
  • Information

• What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Stop

• True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Good
  • True
  • Evil

• Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Better
  • Dangerous
  • Ideals

• Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Kids

• What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

  

  William Inge
  • Share
  • Equal
  • Socialism

• According to government ethics rules and FOMC rules, it is permissible for a retired governor to speak in public about the economy, so long as he or she does not divulge confidential information. I have no indication that he has violated that rule.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • She
  • Economy

• I feel like being an actor it is a great way to do your job and be a parent, because you have a lot of freedom. You have a job and then the job ends and than maybe you don't have another job for a while or maybe you chose not have another job for a while. For an actor, it's like maybe you don't see your kid for two weeks while you are filming but then you might have three months off where you are at home every day and picking him up from school. I find it's a great thing.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Movies
  • Shut Up

• It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • Economy
  • Productive
  • Socialist