Lee Iacocca quotes

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.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

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

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Chrysler builds great cars.

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

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

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

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

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

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

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

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

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

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

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

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

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