Lee Iacocca Quotes

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

Best, Great, Positive

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

Love, Family, Yourself

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca

Work, Nothing, Management

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

Teacher, Best, Society

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

Family, Rock, Works

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.
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Best, Sacrifice, Trying

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

Life, Great, Father

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.
Lee Iacocca

Business, Good, Start

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

Education, God, Yourself

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

Great, Problems, Disguised

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

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

Government, Both, Office

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

Today, Succeed, Stand

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

Work, Everything, Him

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

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

Leadership, Important, Friendly

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

Business, End, Words

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
Lee Iacocca

Business, Around, Risks

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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Team, Boss, Speed

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

Team, Boss, Found

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

Writing, Down, Happen

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca

Ourselves, Ask, Air

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

Try, Rather, Worth

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
Lee Iacocca

Finance, Money, Pay

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: October 15, 1924

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