Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

— Lee Iacocca

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

— Lee Iacocca

We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course." Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic.

— Lee Iacocca

We were on a joyride, on free energy almost. [...] It seems to me we need something like the Manhattan Project. We need some urgency saying, "Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels."

— Lee Iacocca

It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

— Lee Iacocca

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

— Lee Iacocca

Chrysler builds great cars.

— Lee Iacocca

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

— Lee Iacocca

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

— Lee Iacocca

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

— Lee Iacocca

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

— Lee Iacocca

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

— Lee Iacocca

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

— Lee Iacocca

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

— Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca