Lee Iacocca Quotes

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

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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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• We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

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

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• Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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

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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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• The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.

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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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• The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

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• The one word that makes a good manager – decisiveness.

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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 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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• The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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

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• The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

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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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• 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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• So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

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• People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

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Lee Iacocca (56)

Birth:	15th October, 1924
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

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