Harold Geneen

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

Harold Geneen

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 Geneen

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

Harold Geneen

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

Harold Geneen

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

Harold Geneen

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

Harold Geneen

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Harold Geneen

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Harold Geneen

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

Harold Geneen

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, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.

Harold Geneen