Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacoccais an American automobile executive best known for spearheading the development of Ford Mustang and Pinto cars, while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then later for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He served as President and CEO of Chrysler from 1978 and additionally as chairman from 1979, until his retirement at the end of 1992...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth15 October 1924
CityAllentown, PA
CountryUnited States of America
If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.
I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.
MBAs know everything but understand nothing.
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.
Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
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.
I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
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.
No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.
I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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.
A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.