Jack Welch Quotes

If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here.

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

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

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

If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.

No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

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.

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them.... everyone deserves a chance.... you can never let yourself be a victim.

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Control your destiny or somebody will.

In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

I never put myself out there as an employment agency.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

The hero is the one with ideas.

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

All of management is about self-confidence

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.