Quotes By Lee Iacocca

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

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

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.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

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

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.

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

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

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.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.

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

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

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.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

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.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.