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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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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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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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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
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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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I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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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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