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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

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

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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

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Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

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If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

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If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

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

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A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

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There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.

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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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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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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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It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

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When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

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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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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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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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As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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