Harold S. Geneen Quotes

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen

Leadership, Learned, Cannot

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

Leadership, Attitude, Words

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

Business, Experience, Two

Management must manage!
Harold S. Geneen

Work, Management, Manage

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

Work, American, Makes

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen

Wisdom, Difficult, Measure

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

True, Him, Leader

I think 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

Business, Reality, Words

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Reality, Words

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

Best, Attitude, Everything

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

Job, Desk, Cluttered

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

Success, Five, Innovation

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

Women, Men, Two

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

Business, Cannot, Else

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.
Harold S. Geneen

Important, Giving, Same

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
Harold S. Geneen

Analysis, Paralysis, Suffered

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold S. Geneen

Grab, Oar, Ordering

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

Business, Reality, Words

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

Business, Start, Build

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

Decisions, Making, Seeing

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
Harold S. Geneen

Forget, Reality, Everything

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

Away, Diamonds, Stands

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

Work, Business, Worst

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold S. Geneen

Process, Taking, Charge

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

Today, Needs, Yesterday

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: 1910

Died: 1997

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