Quote

There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.

Lee Iacocca

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Businessman
Businessperson
Diarist
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Lido Anthony Iacocca
Simple
Customers
Great
Treats
Product
Build
Products
Mystery
Respect
Satisfying
Quality
Treat

More quotes by Lee Iacocca

Image
Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
Lee Iacocca
Image
I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.
Lee Iacocca
Image
I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.
Lee Iacocca
Image
In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.
Lee Iacocca
Image
Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
Lee Iacocca
Image
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca
Image
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca
Image
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lee Iacocca
Image
The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.
Lee Iacocca
Image
If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
Lee Iacocca
Image
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Lee Iacocca
Image
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.
Lee Iacocca
Image
Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
Lee Iacocca
Image
A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
Lee Iacocca
Image
They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.
Lee Iacocca
Image
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.
Lee Iacocca
Image
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca
Image
Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.
Lee Iacocca
Image
That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
Lee Iacocca
Image
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca