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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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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Businessman
Businessperson
Diarist
Allentown
Pennsylvania
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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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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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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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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
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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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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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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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Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?
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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
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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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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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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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