Lee Iacocca

I guess that’s one achievement I’m really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

Lee Iacocca

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

Lee Iacocca

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

Lee Iacocca

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

Lee Iacocca

I’d really love to meet the guy I’m supposed to be. I’d hire him in a second.

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.

Lee Iacocca

I’m still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.

Lee Iacocca

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he’s in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

Lee Iacocca

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

Lee Iacocca

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

Lee Iacocca