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
Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.
I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
They're going to Orlando, and I'm going to Palm Beach. If it were just me, I wouldn't do this. But because there are eight or nine of us, it makes sense to fly this way.
Al Gore's extreme ideas about cars could cost a lot of Michigan families their jobs.
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.
Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes,
Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them,
If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.