I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
LEE IACOCCA People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught...
LEE IACOCCA The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
LEE IACOCCA Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand ther...
LEE IACOCCA So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start ...
LEE IACOCCA My father always used
to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends,
t...
LEE IACOCCA We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
LEE IACOCCA You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It...
LEE IACOCCA Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserati...
LEE IACOCCA The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.
LEE IACOCCA I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
LEE IACOCCA Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong wit...
LEE IACOCCA Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, y...
LEE IACOCCA People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.
LEE IACOCCA When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
LEE IACOCCA The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
LEE IACOCCA I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually nev...
LEE IACOCCA I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you...
LEE IACOCCA The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. The...
LEE IACOCCA In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...
LEE IACOCCA I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you...
LEE IACOCCA The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
LEE IACOCCA You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you any...
LEE IACOCCA There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
LEE IACOCCA The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their...
LEE IACOCCA The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
LEE IACOCCA Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward...
LEE IACOCCA In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
LEE IACOCCA I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more...
LEE IACOCCA A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers,...
LEE IACOCCA I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
LEE IACOCCA Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who...
LEE IACOCCA Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
LEE IACOCCA So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, st...
LEE IACOCCA I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually nev...
LEE IACOCCA No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having gi...
LEE IACOCCA Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instea...
LEE IACOCCA To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
LEE IACOCCA The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and gr...
LEE IACOCCA The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
LEE IACOCCA The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
LEE IACOCCA Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
LEE IACOCCA Trouble shared is trouble halved.
LEE IACOCCA In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and you...
LEE IACOCCA My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've...
LEE IACOCCA I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those d...
LEE IACOCCA It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
LEE IACOCCA Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot o...
LEE IACOCCA Chrysler builds great cars.
LEE IACOCCA We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
LEE IACOCCA We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
LEE IACOCCA I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by He...
LEE IACOCCA I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a ...
LEE IACOCCA I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you...
LEE IACOCCA The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. The...
LEE IACOCCA If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fancie...
LEE IACOCCA In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your en...
LEE IACOCCA The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
LEE IACOCCA If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it...
LEE IACOCCA There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating tha...
LEE IACOCCA People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
LEE IACOCCA If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanc...
LEE IACOCCA My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a g...
LEE IACOCCA Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living...
LEE IACOCCA When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to blood...
LEE IACOCCA Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward...
LEE IACOCCA Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.
LEE IACOCCA If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
LEE IACOCCA It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derivedù
LEE IACOCCA There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see w...
LEE IACOCCA Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes,
LEE IACOCCA I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team
LEE IACOCCA Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
LEE IACOCCA You know, I'm not too sure what you just said. Now everybody gets a great deal.
LEE IACOCCA Jason wanted me to be the spokesman for Nissan when he was with them,
LEE IACOCCA The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I di...
LEE IACOCCA I'm here today because our country needs a change in leadership, ... We need a leader who is really ...
LEE IACOCCA I have to act to live.
LEE IACOCCA The one word that makes a good manager / decisiveness.
LEE IACOCCA We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
LEE IACOCCA Al Gore's extreme ideas about cars could cost a lot of Michigan families their jobs.
LEE IACOCCA The boss was a genius,
LEE IACOCCA The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. The...
LEE IACOCCA I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way
LEE IACOCCA How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret m...
LEE IACOCCA You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.'...
LEE IACOCCA The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything
LEE IACOCCA In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unle...
LEE IACOCCA The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow h...
LEE IACOCCA I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants ope...
LEE IACOCCA One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are t...
LEE IACOCCA One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs a...
LEE IACOCCA I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really,...
LEE IACOCCA In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...
LEE IACOCCA Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserati...
LEE IACOCCA I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
LEE CHILD In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch...
JENNIFER LEE Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi...
SANDRA LEE What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
SPIKE LEE Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ...
LEE DANIELS The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a...
SPIKE LEE Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
BRANDON LEE I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
SPIKE LEE Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me.
LEE NORRIS If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not...
LEE TREVINO That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it...
LAURIE LEE I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to k...
LEE TREVINO I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
LEE DANIELS You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik...
HARPER LEE I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. ...
LEE DANIELS General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squ...
LEE SMOLIN Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...
HARPER LEE I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge ...
TOMMY LEE I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.
BRANDON LEE I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have...
ANG LEE There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.
LEE RADZIWILL I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre...
LEE DANIELS The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d...
JIM LEE I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'...
BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi...
BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against...
BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de...
BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t...
BARBARA LEE You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.
BRANDON LEE Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I ...
LEE TREVINO When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pu...
AILEEN LEE So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and oth...
LEE STROBEL When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the ac...
LEE HANEY I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have ...
STAN LEE Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lo...
LEE DEWYZE No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately...
TOMMY LEE The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. So...
SPIKE LEE The first day when I saw the scores I knew I could have the win because only three people shot in th...
ALAN LEE He must teach evolution exclusively observable scientific fact, not beliefs or religion. I fully bel...
ALAN LEE They're not sure exactly where they're going.
ALAN LEE Most are extremely embarrassed and humiliated. They're not used to asking for help. We've given them...
ALAN LEE Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as ...
ANG LEE What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing...
BLAINE LEE The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
BLAINE LEE What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing...
BLAINE LEE For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy ju...
LEE CHILD The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big b...
GEDDY LEE My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count...
SHERYL LEE A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect...
LEE TAMAHORI Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and ha...
AMOS LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
SPIKE LEE Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come...
SHERYL LEE I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 19...
SPIKE LEE I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold...
ED LEE The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the ...
LEE BRICE Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...
BRUCE LEE