Lee Iacocca Quotes

You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.

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

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

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.

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

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

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

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.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.