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Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

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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
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Relationships
Business

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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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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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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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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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Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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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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In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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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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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
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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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Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,God, he said exactly what I was thinking. And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
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My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.
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