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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
Autobiographer
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Allentown
Pennsylvania
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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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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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.
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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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To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again.
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Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,God, he said exactly what I was thinking. And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
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