Quotes by Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler

A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren’t keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.

Military

Monday

Morning

Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.

Bills

Firsts

Strong

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You’ve unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

Monday

Night

Sunday

For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company’s, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

Believe

Priorities

Self

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.

Morning

Organization

People

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Growth

People

Working Together

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

Demand

People

Purpose

I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It’s a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.

Believe

Leadership

Leaving

I once worked it out – after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That’s because we’re all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won’t live in it. It’s too big.

Home

Meals

Rooms

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

People

School

Way

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Adults

Algae

Believe

Bills

Bored

Careers

Demand

Democracy

Done

Effort

Enjoy

Essentials

Facts

Feel Good

Firsts

Force

Giving

Giving Back

Growth

Home

Jurassic Park

Keys

Leadership

Leaving

Long

Making Changes

Making Money

Management

Managers

Meals

Men

Military

Monday

Morning

Night

Opportunity

Organization

Parks

People

Politics

Ponds

Practice

Priorities

Profit

Purpose

Quality

Relationship

Rooms

Sake

School

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Quotes by Ricardo Semler

Ricardo Semler

A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren’t keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.

Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You’ve unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company’s, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

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.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It’s a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.

I once worked it out – after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That’s because we’re all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won’t live in it. It’s too big.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

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