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

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities. — Lee Iacocca

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

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one. — Lee Iacocca

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. — Lee Iacocca

Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. — Lee Iacocca

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

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. — Lee Iacocca

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for. — 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

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

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. — Lee Iacocca

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own. — Lee Iacocca

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford. — Lee Iacocca

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

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

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO. — Lee Iacocca

Trouble shared is trouble halved. — Lee Iacocca

Styling cars sells cars and safety does not. — Lee Iacocca

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. — Lee Iacocca

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got. — Lee Iacocca

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

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? — Lee Iacocca

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels. — Lee Iacocca

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

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure. — Lee Iacocca

A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom. — Lee Iacocca

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems. — Lee Iacocca

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. — 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 learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business. — Lee Iacocca

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. — Lee Iacocca

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

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. — Lee Iacocca

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues. — Lee Iacocca

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
— Lee Iacocca

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

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

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans. — Lee Iacocca

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it. — Lee Iacocca

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. — Tom Peters

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed. — Lee Iacocca

A good deal is a state of mind. — Lee Iacocca

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait. — Lee Iacocca

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager. — Lee Iacocca

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. — Lee Iacocca

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. — Lee Iacocca

Don't just stand there; make something happen. — Lee Iacocca

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. — Lee Iacocca

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever. — Lee Iacocca

Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time. — Lee Iacocca

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

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days. — Lee Iacocca

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. — 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 MOUTH FULL. — Lee Iacocca

If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller. — Lee Iacocca

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. — Lee Iacocca

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

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. — Lee Iacocca

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world? — Lee Iacocca

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second. — 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." It's called perseverance. — Lee Iacocca

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. — Lee Iacocca

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships. — Lee Iacocca

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life. — Lee Iacocca

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. — Lee Iacocca

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. — Lee Iacocca

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow. — Lee Iacocca

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

Sometimes you just don't like somebody — Henry Ford

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one. — Lee Iacocca

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

To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things. — Lee Iacocca

Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream. — Lee Iacocca

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments — Lee Iacocca

If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules. — Lee Iacocca

It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. — Lee Iacocca

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

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. — Lee Iacocca

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did. — Lee Iacocca

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

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. — Lee Iacocca

Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities — Lee Iacocca

You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you. — Lee Iacocca

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue. — Lee Iacocca

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

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

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. — Lee Iacocca

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