Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
In business, I loved cars. I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team,… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.” — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
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… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
