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
A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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.
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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.
That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
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.