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Entry from October 04, 2014
“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience”

Harold Geneen (1910-1997), an American businessman who was president of the ITT Corporation, wrote in his book, Managing (1984):
 
“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: Cash and Experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
 
Geneen’s advice has been cited in many business articles and books.
 
   
Wikipedia: Harold Geneen
Harold “Hal” Sydney Geneen (January 22, 1910 β€” November 21, 1997), was an American businessman most famous for serving as president of the ITT Corporation.
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. In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: Cash and Experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
 
OCLC Worldcat record
Managing
Author: Harold Geneen; Alvin Moscow
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st ed.
   
Google Books
The Nation
Volume 239
1984
Pg. 523:
MANAGING. By Harold Geneen, with Alvin Moscow. Doubleday. 297 pp. $17.95.
... β€œIn the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later”; ...
   
9 June 1993, Frederick (MD) Post, pg. 1, right masthead:
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    
 
Google News Archive
4 April 1996, The Blade (Toledo, OH), “Something seems familiar with Katzenberg rumors” by Liz Smith, Peach sec., pg. 1, col. 4:
“IN THE business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later,” said Harold Geneen.
 
Google Books
Management Fundamentals
By Joseph T. Straub
Redding, CA: CAT Pub. Co.
1999
Pg. 23:
“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: Cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
Harold Geneen
CEO, IT&T
 
Google Books
The Big Book of Business Quotations:
More than 5,000 Indispensable Observations on Commerce, Work, Finance and Management

By Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
New York, NY: Basic Books
2003
Pg. 165:
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience, lake the experience first; the cash will come later.
HAROLD S. GENEEN (1910-1997) U.S. telecommunications entrepreneur and C.E>O. of ITT. Managing (cowritten with Alvin Moscow; 1984)
 
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later -H.S. Geneen
2:27 PM - 4 Oct 2014

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityWork/Businesses • Saturday, October 04, 2014 • Permalink


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