Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity. — Jack Welch Competitiveness Copy Share Image
Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers. — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has… — Jack Welch Action Copy Share Image
Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really… — Jack Welch Ability Copy Share Image
Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed. — Jack Welch Change Copy Share Image
Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive… — Jack Welch Boss Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance… — Jack Welch Ambition Copy Share Image
We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success… — Jack Welch Golf Copy Share Image
I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to… — Jack Welch Attitude Copy Share Image
In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the… — Jack Welch Educational Copy Share Image
I think every leader has an obligation - the absolute obligation - to treat everyone fairly. But they also have the obligation… — Jack Welch Absolutes Copy Share Image
What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
