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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.
Lee Iacocca
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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
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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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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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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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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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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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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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I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
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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'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.
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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 the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
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My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
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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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