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We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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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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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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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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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
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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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I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
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In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
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