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There’s a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON’T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

Lee Iacocca

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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Change Positive Uplifting
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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Essential Formal Skill
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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Lesson Mistake Suffering
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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Business Knowledge Leadership
There’s a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON’T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
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Complain Midwest Mouth
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you’ll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.
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Believe Block Class
There’s no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It’s that simple.
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Mystery Quality Simple
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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Hand Important Leadership
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
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Determination Fall Hard Work
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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Differences Ego Strong
I guess that’s one achievement I’m really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.
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Country Idea Job Proud Save
Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?
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Cheeseburger King World
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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Fate Little Moment
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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Education God Motivational
A good deal is a state of mind.
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Mind State of Mind States
What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it.
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Career Choices Emotion Happen Rejoice

There’s a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON’T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

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