Lee Iacocca Quotes
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There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
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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.
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
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People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
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Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
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If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
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When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
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Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?
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Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
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I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
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I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
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He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
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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
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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
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Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.
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If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
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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.
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I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
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I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
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The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again.
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We believe the combination of these two companies will produce very powerful synergies and puts us on a solid platform from which we should be able to realize our full growth potential.
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.