Lee Iacocca Quotes
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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 trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
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Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them.
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Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?
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The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.
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I was stunned. It was a complete takeover. Chrysler had $12 billion in cash and was stronger at the time and should have bought Daimler.
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We believe the combination of these two companies will produce very powerful synergies and puts us on a solid platform from which we should be able to realize our full growth potential.
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If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
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Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
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Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
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Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.
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I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene.
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When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
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I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
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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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Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
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Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
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Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.
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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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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.