"Leadership is practiced not so much in words……" — Harold Geneen
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
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36 Quotes by Harold Geneen
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- You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
- Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
- A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him…
- 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…
- I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but…
- I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row…
- We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
- Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts…
- When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who…
- Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
- It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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