Lee Iacocca

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

Talk to people in their own language. _x000D_ _x000D_ If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." _x000D_ _x000D_ And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

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

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

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

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

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.

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

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

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