Lee Iacocca Quotes
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.
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I'm here today because our country needs a change in leadership, ... We need a leader who is really dedicated to creating millions of high-paying jobs all across the country.
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I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.
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People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.
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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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Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.
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There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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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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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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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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I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.
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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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Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
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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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Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.
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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
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My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
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A good deal is a state of mind.
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There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.
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I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
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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.