Quotes by Harold Geneen - Page 1

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.
Harold Geneen / Businessman
Happiness
Inner Peace
Names
Secret
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Management must manage!
Harold Geneen / Businessman
Work
Manage
Management
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What you manage in business is people
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Business
Management
People
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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Running
Business
Inspiration
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold Geneen / Businessman
Leadership
Born Leaders
Great Leader
Taught
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold Geneen / Businessman
Business
Uncertainty And Doubt
Uncertainty Of Life
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Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
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Negative
Ninety Nine
Surprise
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Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
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Decision
Late
Too Late
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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Jobs
Desks
Office
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Wisdom
Difficult
Performances
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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Needs
Today
Yesterday
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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Time
Decision
Management
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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Diamond
Performances
Standing Out
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In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.
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Purpose
Self
World
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold Geneen / Businessman
Work
Achieve
Native American
Results
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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.
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Work
Hate
Trying
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The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
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Art
Real
Smell
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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.
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Leadership
Doors
People
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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.
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Events
Figures
Numbers
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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.
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Experience
Graduation
Life
Motivational
Funny Inspirational
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
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Success
Business
Congratulations
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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.
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Giving
Important
People
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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 / Businessman
Running
Business
Book
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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
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Leadership
Business
Reality
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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 / Businessman
Business
Economics
Management
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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 / Businessman
Happiness
Leadership
Attitude
Inspiration
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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 / Businessman
Business
Men
Organization
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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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Clean Desk
President
Vices
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Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.
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Business
Balance
Fall
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Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager.
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Commitment
Dedication
Emotional
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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 / Businessman
Running
Men
Reality
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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.
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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 / Businessman
Believe
People
Philosophy
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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 / Businessman
Attitude
Giving
Sarcasm
Vanity
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