Lee Iacocca Quotes - Page 5

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

Chrysler builds great cars.

I was raised to give back. I was born to immigrant parents and was fortunate to become successful at an early age. I've always felt a strong sense of national service to my country, and I may have been able to provide leadership in the political arena. I don't regret the decision not to enter politics, I just wonder sometimes if I could have changed anything.