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

There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.

— 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

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a…

— Lee Iacocca

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

— Lee Iacocca

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

— Lee Iacocca

The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

— Lee Iacocca

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

— Lee Iacocca

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— 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

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

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

— Lee Iacocca

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

— 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

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times.…

— 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

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

— Lee Iacocca

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

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

— Lee Iacocca

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

— Lee Iacocca

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

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it."…

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca