Harold S. Geneen said this quote

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

~ Harold S. Geneen

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

~ Harold S. Geneen

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

~ Harold S. Geneen

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

~ Harold S. Geneen