Lee Iacocca Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
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If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
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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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Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.
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Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.
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If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
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I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
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I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.
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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.
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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.
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In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.
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People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.
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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.
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
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I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
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I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.