Lee Iacocca

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

— Lee Iacocca

#anywhere #brilliant #get #ideas #them

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

#charlie #dealers #first #ford #guy

Chrysler builds great cars. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#cars #chrysler #great

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#good #good manager #makes #manager #one word

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

— Lee Iacocca

#chrysler #days #extended #guess #had

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

#chrysler #country #good #good idea #guess

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

#canned #chrysler #five #ford #four

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

— Lee Iacocca

#henry #jerk #over #percent #trouble

In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#corporation #end #guy #in the end #only

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#economy #get #pay #people #price