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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
Lee Iacocca
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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
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Pennsylvania
Lido Anthony Iacocca
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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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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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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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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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If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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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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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
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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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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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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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MBAs know everything but understand nothing.
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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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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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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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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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