Ricardo Semler Quotes
For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
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Say something personal, not from a publicist.
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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For nothing was simply one thing.
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When I became CEO, I asked Bruce Thompson to step away from 15 years leading client businesses and help rebuild our company.
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How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
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If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.
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For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.
