We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
HAROLD S. GENEEN It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
HAROLD S. GENEEN You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
HAROLD S. GENEEN You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
HAROLD S. GENEEN You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk t...
HAROLD S. GENEEN If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
HAROLD S. GENEEN I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row wi...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
HAROLD S. GENEEN A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach h...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
HAROLD S. GENEEN I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with t...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
HAROLD S. GENEEN The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholi...
HAROLD S. GENEEN You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
HAROLD S. GENEEN It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a...
HAROLD S. GENEEN In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only perform...
HAROLD S. GENEEN I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, prom...
HAROLD S. GENEEN In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first...
HAROLD S. GENEEN When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
HAROLD S. GENEEN The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed,...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
HAROLD S. GENEEN The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
HAROLD S. GENEEN Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.
HAROLD S. GENEEN Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
HAROLD S. GENEEN You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
HAROLD S. GENEEN Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' fro...
HAROLD S. GENEEN We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
HAROLD S. GENEEN The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed,...
HAROLD S. GENEEN The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is much more difficult to measure non performance than performance.
HAROLD S. GENEEN If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
HAROLD S. GENEEN If you keep working you'll last longer and I just want to keep vertical. I'd hate to spend the rest ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is s...
HAROLD S. GENEEN He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
HAROLD S. GENEEN Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
HAROLD GENEEN Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
HAROLD GENEEN You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, ...
HAROLD GENEEN CEO Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
HAROLD S. HULBERT If you have been brave enough to love, and somtimes you won and sometimes you lost; if you have care...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My ...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER . . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to b...
GENEEN ROTH When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe tha...
GENEEN ROTH You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are...
GENEEN ROTH Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about rec...
GENEEN ROTH ...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us ...
GENEEN ROTH When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: o...
GENEEN ROTH They're in full swing and ready to make a real aggressive approach with a full line product.
DAVID GENEEN We'll have some probably in April or May. All of them are sold this year but you never know what can...
DAVID GENEEN It's fast, it's well made, it's beautifully finished and production is coming into full swing in the...
DAVID GENEEN I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
HAROLD TAYLOR If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSON Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep...
HAROLD WILSON The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSON The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSON This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSON One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSON I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
HAROLD WILSON I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
HAROLD WARNER Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
HAROLD WARNER We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
HAROLD TAYLOR I don't think I have a black-hat image.
HAROLD SIMMONS I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the ima...
HAROLD SIMMONS I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do...
HAROLD SIMMONS Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given q...
HAROLD SIMMONS The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
HAROLD RUSSELL I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widel...
HAROLD ROSS Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
HAROLD ROSS American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es...
HAROLD ROSENBERG Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
HAROLD ROSENBERG The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a h...
HAROLD ROSENBERG The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...
HAROLD ROSENBERG The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself fr...
HAROLD ROSENBERG America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of ...
HAROLD ROSENBERG I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
HAROLD ROBBINS Hemingway was a jerk.
HAROLD ROBBINS My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're...
HAROLD RAMIS I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time beca...
HAROLD RAMIS I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
HAROLD RAMIS The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park...
HAROLD RAMIS I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so ...
HAROLD RAMIS Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an...
HAROLD RAMIS I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently sug...
HAROLD RAMIS I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human ...
HAROLD RAMIS First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with...
HAROLD RAMIS I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core...
HAROLD RAMIS I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at...
HAROLD RAMIS Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
HAROLD RAMIS I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
HAROLD RAMIS I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'...
HAROLD RAMIS Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You...
HAROLD RAMIS Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu...
HAROLD RAMIS The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it ...
HAROLD RAMIS I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
HAROLD RAMIS How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
HAROLD RAMIS We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
HAROLD PRINCE One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
HAROLD PRINCE I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se...
HAROLD PRINCE I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm d...
HAROLD PRINCE I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in reh...
HAROLD PRINCE I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think ...
HAROLD PRINCE It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that ...
HAROLD PRINCE The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it ou...
HAROLD PRINCE A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
HAROLD PRINCE I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stoppin...
HAROLD PRINCE When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just...
HAROLD PRINCE Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great star...
HAROLD PRINCE I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody wh...
HAROLD PRINCE I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, provi...
HAROLD PRINCE The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad thing...
HAROLD PRINCE I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move th...
HAROLD PRINCE I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
HAROLD PRINCE I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c...
HAROLD PERRINEAU I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e...
HAROLD PERRINEAU You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
HAROLD NICOLSON We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
HAROLD NICOLSON I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound i...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I w...
HAROLD LARWOOD In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
HAROLD LARWOOD Cricket was my reason for living.
HAROLD LARWOOD I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
HAROLD KUSHNER Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which th...
HAROLD HAMM Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. A...
HAROLD HAMM Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and thi...
HAROLD HAMM Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
HAROLD HAMM A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
HAROLD HAMM The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking ...
HAROLD HAMM I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my car...
HAROLD HAMM Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
HAROLD HAMM I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, drivi...
HAROLD HAMM I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
HAROLD HAMM President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
HAROLD HAMM President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash p...
HAROLD HAMM I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
HAROLD HAMM I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En...
HAROLD HAMM No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
HAROLD HAMM It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on start...
HAROLD HAMM I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
HAROLD FEINSTEIN I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Par...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; wh...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where peo...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and ...
HAROLD EVANS Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and...
HAROLD EVANS For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
HAROLD EVANS I think America has a brilliant future.
HAROLD EVANS Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with pa...
HAROLD EVANS The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
HAROLD COFFIN When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
HAROLD COFFIN Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
HAROLD COFFIN In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
HAROLD BUDD I'm not really a pianist.
HAROLD BUDD I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
HAROLD BUDD