Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. — 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
If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. — 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
That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country? — 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 the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I was raised to give back. I was born to immigrant parents and was fortunate to become successful at an early age.… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller. — 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
If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn. — 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
If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one. — 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
Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out… — 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
