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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Lee Iacocca

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Lee Iacocca

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“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or almost anywhere else.”

Lee Iacocca

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

Lee Iacocca

“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. - Lee Iacocca”

Lee Iacocca

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

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

“We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course." Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic.”

Lee Iacocca book Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Where Have All the Leaders Gone? (2007), Scribner,

Lee Iacocca Quotes

“It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. […] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.”

Lee Iacocca

It Pains Me, Halpert, Julie, 2009-04-30, Newsweek, 2009-05-23 http://www.newsweek.com/id/195551,

“We were on a joyride, on free energy almost. […] It seems to me we need something like the Manhattan Project. We need some urgency saying, "Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels."”

Lee Iacocca

"The Long View: Iacocca Says Detroit Is Living in the Past" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9839029, Morning Edition, NPR, 26 April 2007

“Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.”

Lee Iacocca

“Safety doesn’t sell.”

Lee Iacocca

In 1972 ([Dowie, Mark, Pinto Madness, Mother Jones, September 1977, http://motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness, December 2, 2018]; [Selling Autos by Selling Safety, Paul C., Judge, The New York Times, January 26, 1990, December 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/26/business/selling-autos-by-selling-safety.html]).