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Quotes from Harold S. Geneen

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
~ Harold S. Geneen
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
~ Harold S. Geneen
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
~ Harold S. Geneen
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Management must manage!
~ Harold S. Geneen
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
~ 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
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
~ Harold S. Geneen
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
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
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
~ Harold S. Geneen
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
~ 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
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
~ Harold S. Geneen
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
~ Harold S. Geneen
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.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Management must manage!
~ 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.
~ 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