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Quotes by Harold Geneen

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The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to ‘smell’ a ‘real fact’ from all others.
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The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to ‘smell’ a ‘real fact’ from all others.
If you keep working you’ll last longer. I’d hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
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If you keep working you’ll last longer. I’d hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
It’s better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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It’s better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
The professional’s grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.
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The professional’s grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.
What you manage in business is people.
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What you manage in business is people.
Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It’s growth – – mental, financial you name it.
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It’s growth – – mental, financial you name it.
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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I don’t believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
You can’t run a business or anything else on a theory.
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You can’t run a business or anything else on a theory.
We must not be hampered by yesterday’s myths in concentrating on today’s needs.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday’s myths in concentrating on today’s needs.
If your desk isn’t cluttered, you probably aren’t doing your job.
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If your desk isn’t cluttered, you probably aren’t doing your job.
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