Lee Iacocca

“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”

“I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.”

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

“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.”

“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”

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

“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”

“Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. You have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.”

“If you can find a better car, buy it.”

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”

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

“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.”

“The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

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