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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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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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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I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
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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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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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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.
- Lee Iacocca Quote

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

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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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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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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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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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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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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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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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 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 one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
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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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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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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
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We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
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