Quotes by Harold S. Geneen

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

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.

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.

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.

Harold S. Geneen

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

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Harold S. Geneen

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

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen

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

Harold S. Geneen