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Change before you have to.
Written by Jack Welch
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Written by Jack Welch
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%.
Written by Jack Welch
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
Written by Jack Welch
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.
Written by Jack Welch
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Written by Jack Welch
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Written by Jack Welch
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.
Written by Jack Welch
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.
Written by 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.
Written by Jack Welch
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Written by 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.
Written by Jack Welch
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Written by Jack Welch
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Written by 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.
Written by Jack Welch
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Written by Jack Welch
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Written by Jack Welch
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Written by Jack Welch
The team with the best players wins.
Written by Jack Welch
Be candid with everyone.
Written by Jack Welch
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Written by Jack Welch
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Written by Jack Welch
Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
Written by Jack Welch
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Written by 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.
Written by Jack Welch
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.
Written by Jack Welch
The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.
Written by Jack Welch
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.
Written by Jack Welch
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Written by Jack Welch
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Written by Jack Welch

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