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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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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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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Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
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I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
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People have been fed misinformation. The fact is that the fighting that is going on on the ground in Syria is with Al Qaeda, with Jabhat al Nusra, with Daesh. The pockets, small pockets, of other groups are usually surrounded by these various extremist groups. . . . Once they stop fighting, there is nothing for the Syrian government to hit other than the terrorist organizations.
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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?
