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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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
Lido Anthony Iacocca
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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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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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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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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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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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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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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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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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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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I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
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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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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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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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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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