Harold S. Geneen Quotes
"Management must manage!"
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Management)
"Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: American, Managers, Results)
"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Performance, Forget, Reality)
"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Business, Theory)
"Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Performance)
"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
(Related: People, Attitude, Performance)
"Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Management, Decisions)
"The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Business, Work, Disease, Egotism)
"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Uncertainty, Will)
"We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Myths, Needs, Today, Yesterday)
"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
(Related: Work, Company, President, Vice)
"You can't run a business or anything else on a theory."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Business, Theory)
"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Business, Performance, Explanations, Promises, Reality, Words)
"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
(Related: Men, Women, Company)
"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
(Related: Business, Performance, Explanations, Law, Promises, Reality, Words)
"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
(Related: Leader, People, Policy, Open, Reason)
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Leadership, Attitude, Actions, Words)
"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
(Related: People, Facts, Giving)
"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
(Related: People)
"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
(Related: Business, Performance, Explanations, Law, Promises, Reality, Words)
"If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Job)
"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
(Related: Business, Experience, First, Will, World)
"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Performance, Measure)
"It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Business)
"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."
- Harold S. Geneen
(Related: Leadership)