Lee Iacocca Quotes

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Lee Iacocca

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 15, 1924

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Lee Iacocca

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

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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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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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I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

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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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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 discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

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In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

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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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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

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To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

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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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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 affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

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