Jack Welch 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."
- Jack Welch
(Related: People, Opportunity, Right)
"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
(Related: Talent, People, Job, Water)
"Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Competition)
"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
(Related: Decisions, Job, Jobs, Managers, Security, Today, World)
"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%."
- Jack Welch
(Related: May, Productivity, Running, Software, Will)
"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
(Related: People)
"The Internet is the Viagra of big business."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Business, Internet)
"If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete."
- Jack Welch
"We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Ideas, Managers, Meetings)
"The team with the best players wins."
- Jack Welch
"Change before you have to."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Change)
"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Change, Strength, Company, Confusion)
"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
(Related: Strategy, Company, Future, Investment, Loss, Right, Wrong)
"Be candid with everyone."
- Jack Welch
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Control, Destiny, Will)
"Don't manage - lead change before you have to."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Change)
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Reality)
"Give me a highly successful unionized industry."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Successful)
"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act."
- Jack Welch
(Related: People, Act, Giving, Self, Will)
"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
(Related: Ideas, Company, Globalization, World)
"I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Internet)
"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Success, Mistakes)
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Action, Ability, Learning)