“When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.”

—  Harold Geneen

Managing, Chapter Nine (The Numbers), p. 151.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when re…" by Harold Geneen?
Harold Geneen photo
Harold Geneen16
American businessman 1910–1997

Related quotes

John Philip Kemble photo

“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) British actor-manager

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 40.

Gail Carson Levine photo

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”

Gail Giles (1955) American writer

Source: Right Behind You

Sören Kierkegaard photo

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Stages on Life's Way

Stages on Life's Way, 1845 p. 363-364
1840s, Stages on Life's Way (1845)

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”

Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) American editor

Source: "Any Number Can Play," 1957

Natalie Goldberg photo

“Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. […] If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

Essay, "Listening". p.59
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby photo

“Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.”

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (1648–1721) English poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period

Essay on Poetry (published 1723).

Steven Wright photo

“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading… and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Jennifer Donnelly photo

“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"I said. To myself.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

Mao Zedong photo

“The more books you read, the more stupid you become.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Speech (26 June 1965), quoted in Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story (2005), p. 507
1960s

Related topics