#ma

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#education #get #god #happen #just

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#always #beautifully #christ #come #danger

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. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#good #got #important #know #make

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

— Lee Iacocca

#down #first #first step #happen #making

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#atomic #atomic bomb #back #bomb #decision

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#both #choices #entitled #holding #left

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#good #good manager #makes #manager #one word

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. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#beavers #eager #expected #fill #guys

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#businessman #good #grabs #holds #just

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#die #make #prosperity #sure #trick