"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."

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Source : Ricardo Semler (2004). “The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works”, p.39, Penguin

Ricardo Semler

#Believe Quotes #Self Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“I don't know if I'm a national education figure.”
“Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.”

Source : William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.”
“God is God, and I'm not.”
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness â€” and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones weâ€™re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling â€” their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.”

Source : Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.112, South End Press
“Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?”
“Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world.”
“Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people?”

Source : Friedrich Kellner (2017). “My Opposition”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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