Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision. — Jack Welch Decision Copy Share Image
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
Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers. — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired? — Jack Welch Apps Copy Share Image
“Take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. Use ample praise, the more specific the better.” — Jack Welch Confidence Copy Share Image
Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to… — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“In my experience, an effective mission statement basically answers one question: How do we intend to win in this business?” — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I… — Jack Welch 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
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
No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project -… — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we… — Jack Welch 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
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
For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence… — Jack Welch Assurance Copy Share Image
Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet… — Jack Welch Achievement Copy Share Image
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated. — Jack Welch Dreams Copy Share Image
“RULE 2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.” — Jack Welch Dreams Copy Share Image
“If a job doesn’t excite you on some level—just because of the stuff of it—don’t settle.” — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image