Lee Iacocca Quotes
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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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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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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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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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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Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.
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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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Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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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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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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People want economy and they will pay any price to get 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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If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
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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 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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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.
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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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You know, I'm not too sure what you just said. Now everybody gets a great deal.
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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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They're going to Orlando, and I'm going to Palm Beach. If it were just me, I wouldn't do this. But because there are eight or nine of us, it makes sense to fly this way.