Lee Iacocca Quotes
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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My first manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck for me. My real name is Arnold George Dorsey. It didn't really quite hit the entertainment industry the way it should have. But when my manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck, I had a hit record immediately, which was called 'Release Me.'
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I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
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I retweet. I do retweet a lot. I don't have a lot of very original things to say.
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I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
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There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
