Lee Iacocca Quotes
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In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
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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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I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.
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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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If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.
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From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.
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Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
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Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.
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I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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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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Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.
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You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.