You can't run a business or anything else on a theory. Harold Geneen More Quotes by Harold Geneen More Quotes From Harold Geneen The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. Harold Geneen congratulations business success Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. Harold Geneen born-leaders taught leadership In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Harold Geneen motivational graduation life 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 organization business men 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 Geneen leadership doors people 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 Geneen business leadership reality If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. Harold Geneen desks office jobs 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 leadership attitude happiness 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 business running book 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 vanity sarcasm attitude 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 economics business management Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it. Harold Geneen inner-peace names happiness 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. Harold Geneen spontaneous momentum ideas 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 Geneen important giving people The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent. Harold Geneen events figures numbers We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. Harold Geneen yesterday today needs It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. Harold Geneen business Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. Harold Geneen decision management time 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 Geneen clean-desk vices president 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. Harold Geneen balance business fall
