Lee Iacocca Quotes
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Quotes to Explore
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
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Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
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If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
