You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

- Harold Geneen

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

- Harold Geneen

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

- Harold Geneen

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheart…

- Harold Geneen

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

- Harold Geneen

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

- Harold Geneen

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

- Harold Geneen

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

- Harold Geneen

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

- Harold Geneen