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

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.
- Lee Iacocca

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

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

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

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

I hire smart people and get out of their way.
- Lee Iacocca

He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.
- Lee Iacocca

You can go a long way with some integrity.
- Lee Iacocca

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
- Lee Iacocca

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
- Lee Iacocca

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

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

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

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
- 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

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