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Ricardo Semler Quotes

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: brazilian
Birth: 1959

Topics

Life Work Good Purpose Feel Good

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Jennifer Gilmore

Hope Lie Joy People Say Seriously

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

Government Better Problem Doing Will

There were guys in 'The State' who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn't work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke.

Robert Ben Garant

Work Good Fight Better Seasons You

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

Lorraine Bracco

Live Place Skin Play Never Over

I always seem drawn to people who need help, and I've needed help, too. I've had to learn to love myself.

Love Myself People Learn Help Need

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Service Citizenship Country Consists

The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It's about the same as we charge for a paperback. And that means a different revenue stream.

Jonathan Galassi

Book Price Same Stream Revenue Than

The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.

Quality Road American Weekend Year

Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

Love Good Music Style Purpose Think

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

Moon Better Problem You Why Try

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Alfred de Musset

Painful Glorious How Exception Also

The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens, address common problems, and seize common opportunities. The U.N. helps establish the norms that many countries - including the United States - would like everyone to live by.

Live Together Opportunities Problems

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