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44 Jack Welch Quotes & Sayings
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44 Jack Welch Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 19 November 1935. Died: 1 March 2020 |
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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch
Ability
Action
Advantage
Competitive
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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.
Jack Welch
Change
Company
Confusion
Even
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Control
Destiny
Else
Own
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Jack Welch
Face
Face Reality
Reality
Wish
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Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
Life
Before
Change
You
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
Articulate
Business
Business Leaders
Completion
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
Jack Welch
Afraid
Because
Internet
Type
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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.
Jack Welch
Cut
Decisions
Destroy
Job
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch
Act
Because
Far
Giving
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Jack Welch
Been
Country
Only
Ordained
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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.
Jack Welch
Billion
Billion Dollars
Century
China
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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.
Jack Welch
Believe
Competitiveness
Essence
Get
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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.
Jack Welch
Almost
Behind
Carrier
Compensation
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Big
Big Business
Business
Internet
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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.
Jack Welch
Best
Capital
Changed
Company
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Good
Learned
Mistakes
Often
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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.
Jack Welch
Course
Developing
Gardener
Had
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch
Before
Change
Lead
Manage
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The team with the best players wins.
Jack Welch
Best
Players
Team
Wins
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Be candid with everyone.
Jack Welch
Candid
Everyone
Be
Attitude
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Advantage
Compete
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
Jack Welch
Give
Give Me
Highly
Industry
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch
Bury
Buy
Cash
Communicate
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
Jack Welch
Anybody
Balancing
Eat
Grow
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
Jack Welch
Absolutely
Belief
Counts
Creativity
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch
Balance
Choices
Consequences
Make
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch
Appraisal
Biggest
Cowards
Got
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
Jack Welch
Around
Business
Every
Globalization
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
Jack Welch
Any
Company
Earnings
Five
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About
Developing
Long
Long Term
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
Jack Welch
Around
Beat
China
Country
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch
Around
Forever
Hard
Idea
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
Jack Welch
Being
Business
Businesses
Chemical
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
Jack Welch
Actually
Around
Bankers
Banks
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Biggest
Cowards
Know
Managers
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
Jack Welch
Any
Feel
Way
Tax
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Jack Welch
Ever
Leader
Lifetime
Mitt
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
Jack Welch
Bad
Company
Crazy
Culture
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CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
Jack Welch
About
CEOs
Could
Cultural
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Culture
Drives
Great
Great Results
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
Jack Welch
Action
Measure
People
Take
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One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
Jack Welch
Confidence
Feel
Give
Go
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
Jack Welch
Big
Bureaucracy
Reputation
Stiff
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Jack Welch
About
Become
Before
Growing
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