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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 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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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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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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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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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 a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
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Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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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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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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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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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
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Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.
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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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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
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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 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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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.
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We were on a joyride, on free energy almost. ... It seems to me we need something like the Manhattan Project. We need some urgency saying, 'Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.'
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What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
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