Harold Geneen Quotes

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• 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 Geneen

  Business, Men, Organization

  "Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership". Book by Terence F. Moore, p. 100, 1999.

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• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  Harold Geneen

  Life, Motivational, Graduation

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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

  Harold Geneen

  Leadership, Taught, Born Leaders

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• 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 Geneen

  Leadership, Business, Reality

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

  Harold Geneen

  Jobs, Office, Desks

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• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

  Harold Geneen

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• 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 Geneen

  Leadership, Doors, People

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen , Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 113, 1985.

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• You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

  Harold Geneen

  Running, Business, Book

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• 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 Geneen

  Happiness, Leadership, Attitude

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Management, Economics

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

  Harold Geneen

  Attitude, Sarcasm, Vanity

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• If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

  Harold Geneen

  Hate, Work, Trying

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• What you manage in business is people

  Harold Geneen

  Business, People, Management

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• Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

  Harold Geneen

  Decision, Too Late, Late

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• Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

  Harold Geneen

  Happiness, Names, Inner Peace

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• 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 Geneen

  People, Giving, Important

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• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Uncertainty And Doubt, Uncertainty Of Life

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

  Harold Geneen

  Time, Decision, Management

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

  Harold Geneen

  Art, Real, Smell

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• The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

  Harold Geneen

  Numbers, Events, Figures

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

  Harold Geneen

  Business

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• When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.

  Harold Geneen

  Running, Reality, Men

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• In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

  Harold Geneen

  Ideas, Momentum, Spontaneous

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• I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to.

  Harold Geneen

  Philosophy, Believe, People

  "Harold S. Geneen, 87, Dies; Nurtured ITT" by Kenneth N. Gilpin, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 1997.

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

  Harold Geneen

  Yesterday, Needs, Today

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