Harold Geneen

Harold Geneen
Harold "Hal" Sydney Geneen, was an American businessman most famous for serving as president of the ITT Corporation...
business people management
What you manage in business is people
business management economics
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away
business fall balance
Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.
business men organization
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.
business
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
business uncertainty-and-doubt uncertainty-of-life
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
graduation business two
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
leadership business reality
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality
explained performance stands ton
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.
growth happiness name secret
Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
hate last life longer rest spend trying
If you keep working you'll last longer and I just want to keep vertical. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
decision too-late late
Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
jobs office desks
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
decision management seeing
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.