Quotes by Harold S. Geneen

Management must manage!

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

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

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.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

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