Jack Welch Quotes

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

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

Business, Learning, Learn

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Jack Welch

Reality, Wish, Face

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

Give, Put, Almost

Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch

Future, Someone, Control

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch

Important, Giving, Far

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

Business, Change, Strength

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

Communication, Two, Three

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

Work, Hard, Around

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

Good, Business, Vision

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

Success, Good, Teacher

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch

Stand, Cowards, Biggest

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

Real, Person, Leader

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

Long, Short, While

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

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

Stand, System, Cowards

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

Business, Two, Around

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. 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

Moment, Talk, Worth

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

Computers, Afraid, Internet

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Jack Welch

Advantage, Compete

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

Important, While, Essence

Be candid with everyone.
Jack Welch

Everyone, Candid

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, Greatest, Find

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

Job, Talent, Water

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
Jack Welch

Successful, Give, Industry

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: November 19, 1935

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