Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
- Harold S. Geneen
Diamonds, Always, Stands, Explained
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
Best, Best Way, Them, Wholeheartedly
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
- Harold S. Geneen
Doing, Desk, Your, Cluttered
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
Doing, Kind, Vice, Vice President
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
Work, Law, Immutable, Promises
Management must manage!
- Harold S. Geneen
Work, Management, Must, Manage
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
Business, Everyone, Coins, Business World
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
- Harold S. Geneen
Work, Achieve, Makes, American Companies
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
- Harold S. Geneen
Management, Seeing, Making, Implemented
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
Organizational, Charts, Everyday
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
Ordering, Them, Oar, Grab
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
- Harold S. Geneen
Success, Innovation, Skills, Discrimination
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
- Harold S. Geneen
Analysis, He, Suffered, Paralysis
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
- Harold S. Geneen
Process, Always, Charge, Taking
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
- Harold S. Geneen
Disease, Which, Executives, Egotism
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
Leader, People, Reason, Genuine
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
Important, Reliability, Same, Paper
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold S. Geneen
Leadership, Words, Actions, Much
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
- Harold S. Geneen
Wisdom, Measure, More, Performance
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
- Harold S. Geneen
Business, Cannot, Else, Theory
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
- Harold S. Geneen
Business, Run, Else, Theory
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
- Harold S. Geneen
Today, Yesterday, Needs, Concentrating
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
- Harold S. Geneen
Leadership, Only, Learned, Taught
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
- Harold S. Geneen
Business, New, Over, Existing
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