Ricardo Semler
Brazil
Born on 1959
Businessman
Born on 1959
Businessman
Quotes
Few ideas are as capitalist as profit-sharing, which rewards with part of a company's earnings the people who help generate this blessed surplus.
The pyramid, the chief organizational principle of the modern organization, turns a business into a traffic jam.
I try to create an environment in which others make decisions. Success means not making them myself.
Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.
What is important is our openmindedness, our trust in our employees and distrust of dogma. We are neither socialist nor purely capitalist, but we take the best of these failed systems and others to reorganize work.
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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."
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Essays