Lee Iacocca Quotes
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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.
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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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It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
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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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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
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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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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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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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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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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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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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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 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.
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If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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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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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.
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Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them.
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In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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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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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.