Success Quote by Lee Iacocca

Iacocca is selling a kind of emotional engineering: when life hits hard, don’t “process” it, productize it. The line has the brisk, assembly-line cadence of a man who survived corporate knife fights and turned crisis into a management narrative. “Always best” is doing heavy work here - it’s not advice so much as an operating system. Stress becomes fuel, anger becomes horsepower, and “something positive” becomes the catch-all destination where messy feelings are made presentable.

The intent is pragmatic bordering on evangelical: stay in motion, stay useful, stay in control. It’s also a neat reframing of rage. Anger is acknowledged, but only as raw material to be redirected; it’s never granted the dignity of complaint. That’s classic executive ethos: emotions are acceptable as inputs, not as outcomes. The verb “plow” isn’t accidental either. It conjures force, friction, and cultivation - you don’t eliminate adversity, you cut through it and plant results behind you.

The subtext carries the era that made Iacocca famous: late-20th-century American capitalism’s faith in productivity as redemption. This is what a turnaround story sounds like before it becomes a TED Talk. In the context of his Chrysler years and his broader legend as the can-do CEO, “keeping busy” reads as both coping strategy and personal brand - the idea that purpose is something you manufacture under pressure, and that the noblest response to chaos is output.

It’s bracing, even empowering, but it also hints at a cost: if the only sanctioned grief is work, you may win the quarter and lose the person.