Quotes By Lee Iacocca

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

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.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.