“You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.”
Managing, Chapter One (Theory G on Management), p. 13.
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Managing, Chapter Four (Two Organizational Structures), p. 64.
Managing, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 113.
“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”
Managing, Chapter Four (Two Organizational Structures), p. 69.
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.
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 Eight (Not Alcoholism—Egotism), p. 127.
Managing, Chapter Five (Management Must Manage), p. 86.
“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.