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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca
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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
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Pennsylvania
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They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.
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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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If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.
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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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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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I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
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I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.
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MBAs know everything but understand nothing.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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