Lee Iacocca Quotes
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In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
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The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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If you can find a better car, buy it.
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Al Gore's extreme ideas about cars could cost a lot of Michigan families their jobs.
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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities
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You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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He's just a good kid. I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.
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Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes.
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Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.
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It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
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It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
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Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.