Harold S. Geneen
  • You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

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

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

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

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