Harold Geneen
Entrepreneur, Organization leader
1910 – 1997
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Who was Harold Geneen?
Harold "Hal" Sydney Geneen, was an American businessman most famous for serving as president of the ITT Corporation.
Famous Quotes:
- Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
- I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
- 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.
- In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
- It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
- I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.
- Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
- The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
- In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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- Born
- Jan 22, 1910
Bournemouth - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
Accounting
- New York University
- Employment
- Senior Vice President, Raytheon
(1956 - 1959)
- Senior Vice President, Raytheon
- Died
- Nov 21, 1997
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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