27 Quotes by Harold S. Geneen

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.

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

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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

It is much more difficult to measure non performance than performance.

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

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

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