The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: concentration, discrimination — Harold S. Geneen
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. — Harold S. Geneen
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. — Harold S. Geneen
It’s better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. — 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
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. — Harold S. Geneen
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations — Harold S. Geneen
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
Every company has two organizational structures: the formal one is written on the charts; — Harold S. Geneen
The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves. — 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