Lee Iacocca
Businessman
1924-10-15
Quotes by Lee Iacocca
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I've always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he's able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to 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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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I've always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he's able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to 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 speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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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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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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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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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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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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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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If the Chrysler crisis had come up during a Republican administration, the company would have gone down the tubes before you could say Herbert Hoover.
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In times of great stress or adversity, its always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
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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 make the same mistake twice.
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In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
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No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.
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The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.
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