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?

Ricardo Semler

• People
• Immature
• Personnel

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

  

  Harry Browne
  • English
  • Chinese
  • Constitution

• 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.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Dad
  • Friendly

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Ancient
  • Bloody
  • Haunted

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Guy
  • Myself
  • Like

• My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Family
  • Alone
  • Relatives

• 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.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Way
  • Vain
  • Self-Conscious

• If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • World
  • Good
  • Good Person

• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Bad
  • Me
  • First

• In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Winning
  • Losing

• Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Complex
  • Ownership
  • Judicial

• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Future
  • Anxiety

• 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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Real
  • Society

• In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

  

  Bob Gibson
  • World
  • Hate

• In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Path
  • Cases
  • Chosen

• When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Today

• When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Pray
  • Common Sense
  • Irony

• I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • People
  • Immature
  • Personnel