Quotes from Lee Iacocca

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.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

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

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

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.

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

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

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