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.

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.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.