Lee Iacocca Quotes
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A good deal is a state of mind.
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Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.
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If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
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Chrysler builds great cars.
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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
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I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.
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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.
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If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
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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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It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
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Don’t just stand there; make something happen.
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We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
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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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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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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
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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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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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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
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In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
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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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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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