American - Businessman | October 15, 1924 -
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
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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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I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
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In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
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Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.
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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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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 trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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Chrysler builds great cars.
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