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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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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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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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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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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Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.
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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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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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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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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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I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
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In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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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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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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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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I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
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