Author: Harold S. Geneen

Quotes

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

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

- Harold S. Geneen

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

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

- Harold S. Geneen

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

- Harold S. Geneen

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

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

- Harold S. Geneen

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

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

- 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

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

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

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