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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Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.
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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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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.
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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?
