Lee Iacocca Famous Quotes
"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people."
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else."
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
"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"
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Lee Iacocca Quotations
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
La Rochefoucauld
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
US Marine Proverb
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Roosevelt Eleanor
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
Aristotle
"We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised."
David Assael
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
Myron Tribus
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me"
Marilyn Ferguson
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Virginia Woolf