Quotes by Lee Iacocca

About Lee Iacocca:

Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca is an American automobile executive best known for spearheading the development of Ford Mustang and Pinto cars, while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then later for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He served as President and CEO of Chrysler from 1978 and additionally as chairman from 1979, until his retirement at the end of 1992.
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If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

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I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

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It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

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

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Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.

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

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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.

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

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I’ve always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he’s able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people....

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

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca

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.

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Family quotes by Lee Iacocca, UberQuotes

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

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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 family, what have you really accomplished?

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

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

Lee Iacocca

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

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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.

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

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

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Author Bio

  • NameLee Iacocca
  • DescriptionAmerican businessman
  • BornOctober 15, 1924
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionManager; Businessperson