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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

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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
Indelible
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The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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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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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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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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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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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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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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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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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
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To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
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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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