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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca
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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
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Mistakes are a part of life you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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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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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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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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