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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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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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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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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I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
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People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
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Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word 'Dickensian' could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications.
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If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.
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The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.
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Deep down, I feel 'Doll & Em' is a love letter to our dads, because we adored them.
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
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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?
