Lee Iacocca Quotes
I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Good design is good business.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.
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Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
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I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.
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I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.
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I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.
