Lee Iacocca Quotes
Top 89 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
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.
A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation ... they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
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.
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
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.
The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
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.
In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
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.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then ... do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.
You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.
Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.