“You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.”
Managing, Chapter One (Theory G on Management), p. 13.
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Famous Harold Geneen Quotes
Managing, Chapter Nine (The Numbers), p. 151.
Managing, Chapter Four (Two Organizational Structures), p. 64.
Managing, Chapter Eight (Not Alcoholism—Egotism), p. 127.
Managing, Chapter Five (Management Must Manage), p. 86.
“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”
Managing, Chapter Four (Two Organizational Structures), p. 69.
Harold Geneen Quotes about people
from an interview for an article in The New York Times (1977), as cited in " Harold S. Geneen, 87, Dies; Nurtured AT&T http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/23/business/harold-s-geneen-87-dies-nurtured-itt.html?pagewanted=all" published 23 November 1997 in The New York Times.
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 113.
Harold Geneen Quotes
Managing, Chapter Three (Experience and Cash), p. 39.
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions..”
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 111.
“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 99.
“I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an eighteen-inch fish.”
" Harold S. Geneen, 87, Dies; Nurtured AT&T http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/23/business/harold-s-geneen-87-dies-nurtured-itt.html?pagewanted=all" published 23 November 1997 in The New York Times.
“It is better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.”
Managing, Chapter Ten (Acquisitions and Growth), p. 158.
