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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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In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.
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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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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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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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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish 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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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.
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Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities
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