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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
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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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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
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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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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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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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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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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 always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
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There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.
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In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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