19 Quotes By Harold S. Geneen


Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen on attitude

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 on attitude

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 on business

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 on business

In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen on business

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen on business

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 on business

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
Harold S. Geneen on business

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen on business

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
Harold S. Geneen on business

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen on communication

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 on experience

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Harold S. Geneen on leadership

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen on leadership

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 on relationship

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen on success

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen on wisdom

Management must manage!
Harold S. Geneen on work

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen on work