Iacocca was born in Allentown to Nicola and Antoinette Iacocca, both Italian immigrants.

His given name was Lido Anthony Iacocca.

Iacocca graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in industrial engineering. After graduating from Lehigh, he began a career at Ford Motor Company as an engineer. Unhappy with the job, he switched career paths at Ford, entering the company's sales force. He was very successful in sales and moved up through the ranks of Ford, moving ultimately to product development.

Iacocca was involved with the design of several successful Ford automobiles, most notably the Ford Mustang. He promoted other ideas which did not reach the marketplace as Ford products. Eventually, he became the president of the Ford Motor Company, but he clashed with Henry Ford II and ultimately, in 1978, was forced to leave the company.

After leaving Ford, Lee was aggressively courted by the Chrysler corporation, which was on the verge of going out of business. Iacocca joined Chrysler and began rebuilding the entire company from the ground up, laying off many workers, selling Chrysler's loss-making European division to Peugeot, and bringing in many former associates from Ford.

The above is taken from Wikipedia. Here's Lee Iacocca's full bio as listed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Iacocca

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Lee Iacocca : An Autobiography

The best part of the autobiography is when Iacocca narrated the genesis of the classic Mustang and the euphoria that comes with its success. More engaging for me, is the story about his acrimonious relationship with the despotic Henry Ford II and how Iacocca was sacked.

' When I got home (after being sacked by Henry Ford II), I received a call from Lia, my younger daughter, who was at a tennis camp - - her first time away from home. She heard about the firing on the radio, and she was in tears.

When I look back on that awful week, what I remember most clearly is Lia crying on the telephone. I hate Henry for what he did to me. But I hate him more for the way he did  it. There had been no opportunity to sit down and talk to my kids before the whole world knew. I'll never forgive him for that...  

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've 5 real friends, you've had a great life. I found out in a hurry what he meant.

It was a bitter lesson. You can be friends with someone for decades. You can share all the good times and bad with him. You can try to protect him when the going gets rough. And then you have some rough luck yourself and you never hear from him again.

It really makes you ask yourself the big question. If I could do it all over, would I have protected my family better? The pressure on them was awful. You watch your wife get sicker - Mary had her first heart attack less then 3 months after I was fired- and you wonder. A cruel man and a cruel fate intervene and change your life.

I was hurting pretty badly after the firing, and I could use a phone call from somebody who said' Let's have coffee together, I feel terrible about what happened'. But most of my friends deserted me. It was the greatest shock of my life.'

Friends, how do you find 5 of them in your life?

True Friends...
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Will your friends bleed for you?
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