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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
Diarist
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Lido Anthony Iacocca
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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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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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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.
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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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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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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
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There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
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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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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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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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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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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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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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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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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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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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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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