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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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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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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It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.
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It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
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With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.
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It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
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I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.
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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
