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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

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
Legacy
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Better
Made

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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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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 a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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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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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
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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's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
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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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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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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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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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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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I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.
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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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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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