Lee Iacocca
19 quotes.
Quotes by Lee Iacocca
- Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.
- Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
- Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.
- I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
- If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
- 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.
- In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
- Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
- Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
- Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
- 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?
- 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.
- The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
- The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
- The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
- The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
- You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
- Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.