Jack Welch Quotes
29 Jack Welch quotes:
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
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"If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete."
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"It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy."
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"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
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"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."
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"Don't manage - lead change before you have to."
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"If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century."
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"The team with the best players wins."
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"The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it."
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"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act."
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"Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs."
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"[Although shareholders want boards to pick the best candidate, imported talent inevitably costs more. During the book tour for his recent best seller,] Winning, ... is one of the many driving forces behind the exponential rise in CEO pay."
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"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
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"An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people"
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"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them."
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"Be candid with everyone."
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Candid Quotes
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"The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%."
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Productivity Quotes
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"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
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"Change before you have to."
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"The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation."
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