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If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
— Lee Iacocca
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
— 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
If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
— Lee Iacocca
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
— 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
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
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
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
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
It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
— 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
I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
— Lee Iacocca
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
— Lee Iacocca
Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?
— 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
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
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
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
Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.
— Lee Iacocca
