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Business Quotes by Harold Geneen
- You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
- Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
- What you manage in business is people
- 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
- I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality
- When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from…
- It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
- You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything…
- 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…
- 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,…
- In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
- You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
- In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
- The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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