Harold S. Geneen

Businessman

49 Quotes

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

Management must manage!

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

Management must manage!

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

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