Lee Iacocca

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

— Lee Iacocca

“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”

— Lee Iacocca

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

— Lee Iacocca

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got…

— 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

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

— Lee Iacocca

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

— Lee Iacocca

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

— Lee Iacocca

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to…

— Lee Iacocca

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

— 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 hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

— 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…

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.

— Lee Iacocca

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

— Lee Iacocca

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed…

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was…

— Lee Iacocca

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

— Lee Iacocca

Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take…

— Lee Iacocca

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

— 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

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

— Lee Iacocca