Quotes by Harold Geneen

Harold Geneen

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

Doors

Leadership

People

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

Decision

Late

Too Late

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.

Balance

Business

Fall

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

Happiness

Inner Peace

Names

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

Men

Organization

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Giving

Important

People

I don’t believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what’s happening. If I can’t solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to.

Believe

People

Philosophy

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

Business

Leadership

Reality

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.

Hate

Trying

Work

If your desk isn’t cluttered, you probably aren’t doing your job.

Desks

Jobs

Office

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Achieve

Art

Attitude

Balance

Believe

Book

Born Leaders

Business

Clean Desk

Commitment

Congratulations

Decision

Dedication

Desks

Diamond

Difficult

Doors

Economics

Emotional

Events

Fall

Figures

Giving

Graduation

Happiness

Hate

Ideas

Important

Inner Peace

Inspiration

Jobs

Late

Leadership

Life

Manage

Management

Men

Momentum

Motivational

Names

Native American

Needs

Negative

Ninety Nine

Numbers

Office

Organization

People

Performances

Philosophy

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The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

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Quotes by Harold Geneen

Harold Geneen

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

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

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.

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

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.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

I don’t believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what’s happening. If I can’t solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

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.

If your desk isn’t cluttered, you probably aren’t doing your job.

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