Harold Geneen

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.