Harold Geneen
Harold Geneen
Harold "Hal" Sydney Geneen, was an American businessman most famous for serving as president of the ITT Corporation...
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.
work hate trying
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.
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.
decision too-late late
Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
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
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.
work management manage
Management must manage!
work achieve results
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
president clean-desk vices
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.
self world purpose
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.
ideas momentum spontaneous
In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.