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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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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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
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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.
