Harold S. Geneen

(168 votes)   Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(165 votes)   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 S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(129 votes)   Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen

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(118 votes)   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.

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(107 votes)   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
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(74 votes)   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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(72 votes)   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
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(68 votes)   In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(68 votes)   It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(67 votes)   The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(65 votes)   Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(56 votes)   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
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(55 votes)   You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(53 votes)   When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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