Lee Iacocca Quotes

I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

There's so much more to being a 'top guy' than what you see on screen that I really learned.

Getting to know people as they are is very, very important.

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.