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.
Lee Iacocca
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If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the whole world?
Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
I gotta tell ya, with our $2.4 billion in profits last year, they gave me a great big bonus. Really, it's almost obscene.
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
I have to act to live.
I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
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.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Management is nothing more than motivating other 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.
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?
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
People say to me, "You were a roaring success. How did you do it?" I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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.
The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
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