Harold S. Geneen

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.