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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Lee Iacocca
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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
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Allentown
Pennsylvania
Lido Anthony Iacocca
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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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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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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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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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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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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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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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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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