Lee Iacocca Quotes
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The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.
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You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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If you can find a better car, buy it.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
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Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
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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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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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Al Gore's extreme ideas about cars could cost a lot of Michigan families their jobs.
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Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes.
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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
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Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.
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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.
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It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
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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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He's just a good kid. I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
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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.
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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.
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It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.
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I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.
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The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
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A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.