225 Quotes by Lee Iacocca

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

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.