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 think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit. — 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 a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like. — 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
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… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
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