Harold Geneen Quotations

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

What you manage in business is people

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Management must manage!

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

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.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.