Lee Iacocca Quotes

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Work
  • Important
  • High

• Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Been
  • Destination

• As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Style
  • Best
  • Woman

• The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Important
  • Audience
  • Genuine

• I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Behind

• What is important is to win.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Important
  • Win

• NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Important
  • You
  • Privacy

• In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Different
  • Important
  • Day

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • You
  • Reading

• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Important
  • Giving

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
  • Business
  • Leadership

• For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• If I'm playing a gig in London, it feels so important. The adrenaline rush here is bigger than anywhere else. I kind of like the pressure that London puts you under.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • You
  • London

• If you look at the history of innovation, the innovations coming through the defence department have been some of the most important innovations ever. Little things like drones, sensors, and the Internet of Things are defence-type initiatives, but the big one is the Internet itself.

  

  David Cohen
  • Important
  • History
  • Innovation

• What is important is that the region, the people of Serbia, now draw a line across Milosevic's past and his life, which was a malign influence on the people of Serbia and the whole region.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.

  

  David Hayter
  • Important
  • Change
  • Comics

• Consider this: Whenever someone is bothering you, and they just won't let up, and they won't listen to anything you have to say, what do you tell them to get them to shut up and go away? 'You're right.' It works every time. But you haven't agreed to their position. You have used 'you're right' to get them to quit bothering you.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Up
  • Time

• I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Important
  • Leadership
  • Lessons