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

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
Lee Iacocca

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

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

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

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

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.
Lee Iacocca

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Lee Iacocca

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
Lee Iacocca

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

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca

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

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Lee Iacocca

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
Lee Iacocca

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Lee Iacocca

Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Lee Iacocca

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

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

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

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