49 Quotes by Harold Geneen

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

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.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

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.

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

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

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

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.