Ricardo Semler Quotations

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.

The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.

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.

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.

No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.

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

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.