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

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

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

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

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

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

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