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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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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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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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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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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