BRILLIANT QUOTES FROM LEE IACOCCA

May 12th 2014 at 2:04pm Published by firstdownadmin

Lee Iacocca is an American automobile executive best known for spearheading the development of Ford Mustang and Pinto cars, while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then later for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He served as President and CEO of Chrysler from 1978 and additionally as chairman from 1979, until his retirement at the end of 1992. Iacocca was a passionate advocate of U.S. business exports during the 1980s.

Here are quotes that can inspire you to use your time in a wise manner so that you may live your dreams.

1. “Get all the education you can, but then by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” Lee Iacocca

2. “Start with good people.” Lee Iacocca

3. “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.” Lee Iacocca

4. “You can have brilliant ideas but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” Lee Iacocca 

5. “Something useful is always born out of happiness.” Lee Iacocca

6. “Being honest is the best technique.” Lee Iacocca

7. “Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people.” Lee Iacocca

8. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” Lee Iacocca 

9. “As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks – those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.” Lee Iacocca

10. “In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less because passing civilization along from generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.” Lee Iacocca