Lee Iacocca

"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?"

- Lee Iacocca

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

- 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

"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

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

- Lee Iacocca

"A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues."

- Lee Iacocca

"I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

- Lee Iacocca

"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

- Lee Iacocca

"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."

- Lee Iacocca

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

- Lee Iacocca

"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."

- Lee Iacocca

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

- Lee Iacocca

"To me, the car business is a lot like football. When you make a mistake, it’s glaring."

- Lee Iacocca

"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything."

- 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

"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

"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?"

- Lee Iacocca

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere."

- Lee Iacocca

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

- Lee Iacocca

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

- Lee Iacocca