225 Quotes by Lee Iacocca

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

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.

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.

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.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.