Harold S. Geneen [1910-1997] British Rank: 101 Businessman
Work, Attitude, Business, Leadership, Communication, Experience, Relationship, Success, Wisdom
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. | Attitude, Leadership | 101 | The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. | Communication, Success | 102 | Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. | Leadership | 103 | 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. | | 104 | In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. | Business, Experience | 105 | It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. | Business, Work | 106 | 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. | Attitude | 107 | 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. | Relationship | 108 | Management must manage! | Work | 109 | It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. | Wisdom | 110 | Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. | | 111 | Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. | | 112 | I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. | | 113 | If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. | | 114 | 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. | | 115 | He suffered from paralysis by analysis. | | 116 | The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. | | 117 | Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. | Work | 118 | A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. | | 119 | Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. | | 120 | We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. | | 121 | It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. | | 122 | You can't run a business or anything else on a theory. | | 123 | You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. | | 124 |
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