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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
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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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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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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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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 affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
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If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.
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Mistakes are a part of life you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
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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 the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.
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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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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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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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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
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