Lee Iacocca Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
-
When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
-
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
-
'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
-
The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
-
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
-
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
-
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
-
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
-
You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
-
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
-
I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
-
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
-
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
-
Actors don't have real value.
-
I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.
-
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
-
No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.
-
'The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.'
-
The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.
-
Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
