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
It was a marriage made in heaven. The ads created a lot of buzz, and sales rose 24.7 percent in July,
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
MBAs know everything but understand nothing.
If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
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.
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.
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.
I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.
Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.