Harold S. Geneen Quotes

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

There are no managers like there used to be managers.

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.'

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

Structure is not about moving boxes around on a chart. Structure is about power.

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

I think, in any workplace environment, the atmosphere trickles down from the top.

I've spent a lot of time studying corporations and what makes them tick.

I think most people can identify with the hierarchy of the workplace.

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.