225 Quotes by Lee Iacocca

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

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.

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.