Ricardo Semler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Leadership #Believe #Leaving
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees
-- Ricardo Semler

#Leadership #Force #Employee
People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
-- Ricardo Semler

#Leadership #Opportunity #People
The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Keys #Done #Watches
The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Giving #Way #Profit
No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Careers #People #Want
If you are giving back, you took too much.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Giving #Too Much #Giving Back
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.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Home #Rooms #Size
The key to management is to get rid of the managers.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Keys #Management
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.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Believe #Self #Priorities
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Successful #Quality #Firsts
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Effort #Growth #Profit
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?
-- Ricardo Semler

#Home #People #Adults
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Using People #Practice #Democracy
Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Two #Growth #Sake
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Feel Good #Purpose #Making Money
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.
-- Ricardo Semler

#School #People #Way
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
-- Ricardo Semler

#People #Purpose #Demand
We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Relationship #Leadership #Facts
People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.
-- Ricardo Semler

#People #Making Changes #Should
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.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Strong #Bills #Firsts
It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.
-- Ricardo Semler

#Politics #Way #Economy

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