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Famous Lee Iacocca Quotes
“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.”
“With a car, you can go anywhere you want.”
“If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”
“I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.”
“Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.”
“Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.”
“I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.”
“I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.”
“If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.”
“Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.”
“If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.”
“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”
“To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.”
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
“I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.”
“I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.”
“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.”
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.”
“Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.”
“The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.”
“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”
“We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
“We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.”