Lee Iacocca Quotes
The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
Quotes to Explore
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.
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People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
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I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.
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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
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The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
