Harold S. Geneen Quotes

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Why should we hesitate to toss the old views overboard.

We can't be beholden to the past.

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

In a business, you've got to move on.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future. It cannot start upon its work before it has stricken off all superstition concerning the past

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

The past should have a vote but not a veto.

If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both.