QUOTES by Lee Iacocca
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"Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance."
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"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do / they always reach."
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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."
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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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"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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"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."
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"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two."
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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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"Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it." It's called perseverance."
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"If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,"
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"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."
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"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there."
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
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"Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little."
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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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"One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt."
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"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."
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"If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent."
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"I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership."
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"I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy."
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"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
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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 most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."
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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
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"Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss."
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"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being."
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"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people."
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"The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach."
Quote by -Lee Iacocca
"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two."
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"People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen."
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