Lee Iacocca Quotes

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Life
  • Intelligent
  • Humor

• 'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Proud

• I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Team
  • Baseball

• I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• We really think of Bitcoin as a global, interoperable payment network instead of a store of value.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Value

• Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Work
  • Great
  • Family

• I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

  

  Joan Blades
  • Country
  • Real

• You think about getting old, but when you get there, it's not what you thought it would be.

  

  Jerry Lewis

• Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III
  • World
  • Business
  • Failure

• People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

  

  Ken Venturi
  • People
  • Long
  • Giving

• The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

  

  John Boehner
  • People
  • Job
  • American

• Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.

  

  Benjamin Robbins Curtis
  • Important
  • May
  • Truth

• Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.

  

  Mary Quant
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

  

  Enrique Iglesias
  • World
  • Music
  • Rest

• Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

  

  Claudia Christian
  • Trust

• As members of Congress, we have to pursue the Congressional Review Act legislation as soon as possible.

  

  Brian Schatz

• And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

  

  David Coleman

• When the greatest hero in the history of my party, Abraham Lincoln, debated, he didn't need any rules, ... We could junk the rules.

  

  Alan Alda
  • History
  • Party
  • Hero

• The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

  

  George Will
  • Discovery
  • Obvious
  • Amusing

• We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Borrow

• The three auto companies in the United States, they're all scrambling to come up with a plan, some way to reinvent themselves. Well this week Ford did its part. Ford unveiled a new hybrid, the Ford Fusion, which will get almost 40 miles to the gallon. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, and when asked how much it would cost, a spokesman for Ford said, '$25 billion.' They just want that money; they don't care. That's without mud flaps.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Money
  • Amazing

• My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Black

• I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Ford
  • Chrysler
  • Henry Ford