Harold Geneen Quotes

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

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

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

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

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

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