Harold S. Geneen

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

— Harold S. Geneen

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

— Harold S. Geneen

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

— Harold S. Geneen

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

— Harold S. Geneen

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

— Harold S. Geneen