Harold S. Geneen Quotes

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.

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

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

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

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The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to.

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

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

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

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In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

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In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

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

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

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

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When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

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The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

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