British - Businessman | 1910 - 1997
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen
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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.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Management must manage!
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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