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.

  

  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

• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Reading

• 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

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• 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

• 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.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Long
  • Experience

• Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

  

  Jay Duplass
  • Success
  • Persistence

• I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.

  

  David Denman
  • People

• There are a lot of myths about gay people.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Gay
  • Myth

• 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