Lee Iacocca Quotes

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

I converted a problem into an opportunity.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.

Adversity is the mother of enterprise.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

I always say the more problems you have, the more opportunities you have.

I really love picking up subjects where people say, 'How is this going to work?' and trying to find a way to make it work because every story needs to be told.

Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.