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Surely it is moderate to say that the dish-washing for a family of five takes half an hour a day; with ten hours as a day’s work, it takes, therefore, half a million able bodied persons --- mostly women --- to do the dish-washing of the country. And note that this is most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work: that it is a cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness, and ill-temper: of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children --- for all of which things the community has naturally to pay. The Jungle ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#family

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#company #every #everyday #formal #men

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

#grab #i #just #oar #ordering

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

#explanations #immutable #law #only #performance

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

— Harold S. Geneen

#away #diamonds #explained #like #out

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#charge #part #process #taking #uncertainty

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#hampered #must #myths #needs #today

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality. ↗

— Richard Gere

#more #normally #reality #substantial #such

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#company #desk #doing #executive #keeps

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

— Harold S. Geneen

#business #cannot #else #run #theory