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

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

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

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

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.
Lee Iacocca

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Lee Iacocca

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

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

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
Lee Iacocca

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.
Lee Iacocca


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

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

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

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca

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.
Lee Iacocca

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

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?
Lee Iacocca

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.
Lee Iacocca

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

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.
Lee Iacocca