Ricardo Semler Quotes

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Ricardo Semler

• People
• Working
• Products

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Jump
  • Ready
  • Ring

• 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Education
  • Really
  • Skills

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• 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.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Time
  • Education
  • Youth

• I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • You
  • Water
  • Phone

• 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.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Knowledge
  • Thoughts

• 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.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • Education
  • Military

• This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Fun

• What I love is getting polarized opinions.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.

  

  James Bay
  • Bad

• I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Proud
  • Struggle
  • Anxiety

• I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • Interesting

• I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

  

  David Mackay
  • Space
  • Travel
  • Military

• My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Technology

• To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

  

  Alec Douglas-Home
  • Mind
  • Miss
  • Dentures

• I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

  

  Larry David
  • Wanted
  • Really
  • Just

• Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• If this just degenerates after a historic election, back into the usual bologna of politics in Washington and pettiness in Washington, then the American people I believe will move towards a third party in a massive way.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • People
  • Working
  • Products