Harold S. Geneen

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

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

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

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

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 wholeheartedly supporting them.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

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

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

Management must manage!

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.