225 Quotes by Lee Iacocca

A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.

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.

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.

Greenmail, in case you’re wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he’ll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

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

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He’s the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He’s the oil in the engine.

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments.

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.

In business, I loved cars. I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning. Only in America can you decide to get a good education and pursue what you like.