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The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
— Harold Geneen
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
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
— Harold S. Geneen
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
— Harold S. Geneen
We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.
— Geneen Roth
Live as if they know that they are worth their own time. Live as if they deserve to take care of their bodies. Live as
— Geneen Roth
Awareness is learning to keep yourself company
— Geneen Roth
You can deal with the loneliness one night at a time. But what you can't deal with is the idea of loneliness, the fear of it.
— Geneen Roth
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
— Harold S. Geneen
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
— Harold S. Geneen
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.
— Geneen Roth
For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).
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Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.
— Geneen Roth
How you eat is how you live.
— Geneen Roth
If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.
— Geneen Roth
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
— Harold S. Geneen
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
— Harold S. Geneen
The process is the goal.
— Geneen Roth
Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.
— Geneen Roth
We are strong where we were broken.
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Take time to thank your body.
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Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.
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Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.
— Geneen Roth
I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.
— Geneen Roth
The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.
— Geneen Roth
If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.
— Geneen Roth
We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.
— Geneen Roth
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
— Harold S. Geneen
Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.
— Geneen Roth
If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?
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Be fully present for five minutes every day.
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You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that ...
— Geneen Roth
You can be aware of your past without being it.
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What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.
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If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.
— Geneen Roth
No act of love is ever wasted.
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
— Harold S. Geneen
Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
— Harold Geneen
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
— Harold S. Geneen
It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.
— Geneen Roth
The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.
— Harold Geneen
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
— Harold S. Geneen
Just because we form an opinion about ourselves, or anyone else, doesn't mean it is true.
— Geneen Roth
The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.
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Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
— Geneen Roth
Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
— Harold Geneen
If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
— Harold Geneen
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
— Harold Geneen
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
— Harold S. Geneen
In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.
— Harold Geneen
The obsession will end when you love yourself enough to stop hurting yourself. Who doesn't want to take care of what they love?
— Geneen Roth
You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.
— Geneen Roth
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
— 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
What you manage in business is people
— Harold Geneen
Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.
— Geneen Roth
You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.
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Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.
— Geneen Roth
We eat the way we live.
— Geneen Roth
You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible.
— Geneen Roth
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
— Harold S. Geneen
If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.
— Geneen Roth
Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.
— Harold Geneen
Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.
— Geneen Roth
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
— Harold S. Geneen