Ricardo Semler Quotes
Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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My family traveled a lot. For a while we even lived in a trailer and traveled from campground to campground. If we got to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, it was the highlight of our whole year! But I don't miss having to share a bathroom with seven people or having powdered milk with my cereal. It was so nasty.
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We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America - out of 435, I'm 422.
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Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.
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It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
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People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.
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Top technologists have a tremendous capacity - and, therefore, a tremendous responsibility - to build things that make a positive impact on the world.
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At this point I feel like I could go out and accomplish anything. I'd just love to see Will Smith's face if he found out I, Z-Braff, have the number one rap album in the country. That'd show that no-talent uncle tom.
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I think of my customer as a woman who wants to look beautiful and be able to walk.
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It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.
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When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.
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Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.
