Harold S. Geneen Quotes


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 you must to reach it. - Harold S. Geneen


You can't run a business or anything else on a theory. - Harold S. Geneen


You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. - Harold S. Geneen


You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. - Harold S. Geneen


When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. - Harold S. Geneen


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 the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him. - Harold S. Geneen


We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. - Harold S. Geneen


Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. - Harold S. Geneen


The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent. - Harold S. Geneen


The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others. - Harold S. Geneen


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