225 Quotes by Lee Iacocca

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

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.

The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.

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.

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.

No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. People come first. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.