Ricardo Semler
Brazil
Born on 1959
Businessman
Born on 1959
Businessman
Quotes
Instead of giving contracts to strangers, we decided we could just as well give contracts to our own employees. We would encourage them to leave... and start their own satellite enterprises.
We use minimal hierarchies, ad hoc structures, self-control, and the discipline of our own community marketplace of jobs and responsibilities to achieve high quality, on-time performance.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays