All Jack Welch Quotes
- Give me a highly successful unionized industry. Give
- Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab… All
- If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. Big
- We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? All
- Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the… Best
- 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… Course
- Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. Any
- In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States. Ever Seen
- Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. Business
- You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up. Action
- 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… Cut
- 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. Anybody
- 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… Billion
- 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… Been
- I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I… Actually Think
- In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to… Able
- Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation… Beat
- 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… Annual
- 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… Customer
- If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. Change