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In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.
Lee Iacocca
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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
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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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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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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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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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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
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The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.
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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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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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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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The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
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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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