Lee Iacocca

Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.

— Lee Iacocca

Chrysler builds great cars.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

— Lee Iacocca

MBAs know everything but understand nothing.

— Lee Iacocca

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

— Lee Iacocca

A good deal is a state of mind.

— Lee Iacocca

Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

— Lee Iacocca

If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

— Lee Iacocca

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.”

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

— Lee Iacocca

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have…

— Lee Iacocca

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked…

— Lee Iacocca

There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.

— Lee Iacocca

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those…

— Lee Iacocca

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I…

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

In times of great stress or adversity, its always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something…

— Lee Iacocca

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid…

— Lee Iacocca

I was raised to give back. I was born to immigrant parents and was fortunate to become successful at an early age.…

— Lee Iacocca

No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties…

— Lee Iacocca

From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing…

— Lee Iacocca

In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started…

— Lee Iacocca

It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been…

— Lee Iacocca

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for…

— 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.…

— Lee Iacocca

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.…

— Lee Iacocca

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

— Lee Iacocca

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

— Lee Iacocca

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

— Lee Iacocca

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

— Lee Iacocca

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

— Lee Iacocca

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

— Lee Iacocca

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

— Lee Iacocca

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

— Lee Iacocca