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Inspirational Quotes by Lee Iacocca
- When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
- Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
- You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.
- Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
- What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.
- They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
- Don’t just stand there; make something happen.
- Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
- Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?
- 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…
- Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.
- I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
- In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
- In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
- Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
- To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
- 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…
- The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
- You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
- Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
- Chrysler builds great cars.
- I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
- It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
- If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento