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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.

Lee Iacocca

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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
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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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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 only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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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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Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
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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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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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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 the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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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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