Jack Welch Quotes

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Jack Welch

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 19, 1935

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

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

Jack Welch

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

Jack Welch

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Jack Welch

Change before you have to.

Jack Welch

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Jack Welch

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Jack Welch

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Jack Welch

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Jack Welch

The team with the best players wins.

Jack Welch

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

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

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

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Jack Welch

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Jack Welch

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

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

Jack Welch