Lee Iacocca - Business Quotes

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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business—or almost anywhere else for that matter.

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

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From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

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I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Lee Iacocca

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

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