Top 21 Harold S. Geneen Quotes

#1. It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

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

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

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

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#16. 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.

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

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

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

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#20. 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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#21. 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.

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