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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
Lee Iacocca
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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Businessman
Businessperson
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Allentown
Pennsylvania
Lido Anthony Iacocca
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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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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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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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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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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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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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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
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