27 Quotes by Harold S. Geneen

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

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.

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

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

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

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

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.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

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