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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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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
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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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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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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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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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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
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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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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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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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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.
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If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.
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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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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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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
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If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
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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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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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