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

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


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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.



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

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



Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.



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.

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.



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.

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.



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



A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.



If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.



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

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



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.

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.





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To remember is to disengage from the present.



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In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.



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Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.



People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

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I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.




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