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
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
It was a marriage made in heaven. The ads created a lot of buzz, and sales rose 24.7 percent in July,
I was stunned. It was a complete takeover. Chrysler had $12 billion in cash and was stronger at the time and should have bought Daimler.
He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.
The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again.
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.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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.
To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
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.
Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.
To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.