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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
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Made

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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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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
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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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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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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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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 a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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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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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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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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Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities
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The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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MBAs know everything but understand nothing.
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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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I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
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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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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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