Lee Iacocca

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.

Lee Iacocca

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Lee Iacocca

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

Lee Iacocca

Chrysler builds great cars.

Lee Iacocca

Chrysler invented rebates, I’m sorry to say. I didn’t have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.

Lee Iacocca

Every little kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy, and I did.

Lee Iacocca

Here’s what we should be doing. We’ve got to get off fossil fuels.

Lee Iacocca

I don’t need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

Lee Iacocca

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Lee Iacocca

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that’s all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

Lee Iacocca