Ricardo Semler Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
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A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. But I have always wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me.
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You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.
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After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.
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This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?
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What I love is getting polarized opinions.
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It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.
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I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.
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I lick the cheese off Doritos and put them back in the bag. I will eat pretty much anything as long as it's salty. Or sweet. Or spicy.
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In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
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There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.
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Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.
