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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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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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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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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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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Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
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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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Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a motive power transcending that of each separate people, just as the power of the organism transcends that of the organ. This reason increases in proportion as the unity of mankind becomes established.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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GQ: 'Were you in love with Johnny Marr?'M: 'Sexually? Absolutely not. There was a love and it was mutual and equal but it wasn’t physical or sexual. There are lots of people post-Smiths who would like to make some dramatic homosexual story. There never was one. It’s often said that Johnny rescued me but he was also bobbing about in his own lifeboat.'
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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.
