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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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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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 have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
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Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.
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The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.
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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?
