Harold Geneen
United States
22 Jan 1910 // 21 Nov 1997
Businessman
22 Jan 1910 // 21 Nov 1997
Businessman
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The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to smell a real fact from all others.
Managing (1984)
My philosophy is to stay as close as possible to what's happening. If I can't solve something, how the hell can I expect my managers to?
New York Times (1997)
Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.
Managing (1984)
The soul of a business is a curious alchemy of needs, desires, greed, and gratifications mixed together with selflessness, sacrifices, and personal contributions far beyond material rewards.
Managing (1984)
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationships of the men and women in the organization.
Managing (1984)
If you keep working, you'll last longer, and I just want to keep vertical. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
New York Times (1997)
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays