Top 50 Quotes by Lee Iacocca

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.

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.

I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

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

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.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.