“I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an eighteen-inch fish.”

— Harold Geneen

" 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.

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American businessman 1910–1997

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