Ricardo Semler Quotes
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I don't have any nicknames.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in the book world, things keep changing by the second.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
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At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
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I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.
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The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.
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I never have actually had a girl who's made me laugh before.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy any place.
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I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
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When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.
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Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
