Harold S. Geneen

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

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

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

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

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