Author: Harold S. Geneen

Quotes

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

- Harold S. Geneen

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

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

- Harold S. Geneen

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

- Harold S. Geneen

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

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

- Harold S. Geneen

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.

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.

- Harold S. Geneen

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.

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.

- Harold S. Geneen

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

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

- Harold S. Geneen

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

- Harold S. Geneen

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

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

- Harold S. Geneen

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