Ricardo Semler Quotes
A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.
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It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.
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My advice would be, as you consider fiscal policies, to keep in mind and look carefully at the impact those policies are likely to have on the economy's productive capacity, on productivity growth, and to the maximum extent possible, choose policies that would improve that long-run growth and productivity outlook.
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It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.
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I rang room service, and asked for a bottle of Perrier, because while I was asleep someone had come in and carpeted my throat.
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If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
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The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
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There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.
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A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.
