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Company Quotes by Jack Welch

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Jack Welch stresses that a clear vision and aligned team are essential for any business. He urges leaders to replace star performers quickly, spread bold ideas at lightning speed, and build a culture where every employee’s mind is engaged. He believes satisfied customers, not job security, drive success.

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Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

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Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

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

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The main social responsibility for a company is to win.

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

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Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers.

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

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Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

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No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how…

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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion…

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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say,…

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No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project -…

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I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people…

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

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Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best…

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Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive…

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We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any…

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I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a…

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Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet…

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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to…

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Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company…

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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can…

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Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction,…

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There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer…

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...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

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The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.

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Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.

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Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a…

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

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One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated…

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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual…

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A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their…

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If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not…

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Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.

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In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends…

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Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer…

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There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called…

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My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And…

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When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight.

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Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and…

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

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So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may…

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No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything…

Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming…

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out…