“IT’S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.” — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. — Jack Welch Change Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior. — Jack Welch Approach Copy Share Image
Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant. — Jack Welch Barriers Copy Share Image
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. — Jack Welch Confidence Copy Share Image
A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be — Jack Welch Future Copy Share Image
The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances. — Jack Welch Action Copy Share Image
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor. — Jack Welch Binders Copy Share Image
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate… — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to… — Jack Welch Competition Copy Share Image
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any… — Jack Welch Ability Copy Share Image
So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your… — Jack Welch Balance Copy Share Image
The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver… — Jack Welch Ability Copy Share Image
Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In… — Jack Welch Approach Copy Share Image
You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think. — Jack Welch Employee Copy Share Image
Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee. — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“Working to fulfill someone else’s needs or dreams almost always catches up with you.” — Jack Welch Dream Copy Share Image
If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts! — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
