Harold S. Geneen Quotes

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

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.

Management must manage!

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

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.