Lee Iacocca Quotes

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

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• I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Think
  • Law

• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Time
  • World
  • Political

• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Business
  • News
  • Gathering

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Time
  • Lived
  • Montreal

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• Business is tough; you need tough guys.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Business
  • You
  • Tough

• Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Time
  • School
  • Decisions

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Acting

• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Business
  • Question

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good - she's with me all that time in that way.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Time
  • Man
  • Earth

• Every time has its own Hamlet.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • Time
  • Hamlet

• I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.

  

  Alan J. Heeger
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Strong

• The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Time
  • Business
  • Ability