I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Pam Gems
Playwright

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Pam Gems
Playwright

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

Harold S. Geneen
Businessman

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
Businessman

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
Businessman

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Harold S. Geneen
Businessman

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
Businessman

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
Businessman

I think 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
Businessman

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

Harold S. Geneen
Businessman