Jack Welch Quotes


29 quotes:

"It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: Technology Quotes
"[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."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: Talent Quotes
"[While 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."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: Talent Quotes
"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"
Author: Welch Quotes Category: Management Quotes
"Papers filed by my wife in our divorce proceeding became public and grossly misrepresented many aspects of my employment contract with General Electric,"
Author: Welch Quotes Category: Divorce Quotes
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: Business Quotes
"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes
"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%."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes Productivity Quotes
"We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?"
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes
"We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes Ideas Quotes
"Be candid with everyone."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes Candid Quotes
"Don't manage - lead change before you have to."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes
"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes Mistakes Quotes
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes
"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."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes Jobs Quotes
"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."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes
"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."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes
"My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes
"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes
"Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas."
Author: Welch Quotes Category: American Businessman Quotes

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