Ricardo Semler Quotes
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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People would always ask me how I came up with my music and what it felt like to make music, and I would always see colours, and then I found out that that was synaesthesia. It helps me understand songs and what I like.
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People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
