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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

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
Economics
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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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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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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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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
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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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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
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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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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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The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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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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Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
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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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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
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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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