I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. — Jack Welch Failure Copy Share Image
I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here. — Jack Welch Inspirational Copy Share Image
If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence. — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
“Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.” — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts! — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that… — Jack Welch Chains Copy Share Image
Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are… — Jack Welch 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
...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position. — Jack Welch Business Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. — Jack Welch Balance Copy Share Image
There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the… — Jack Welch Ability Copy Share Image
Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her… — Jack Welch Confidence Copy Share Image
No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than… — Jack Welch Challenges Copy Share Image
Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood…….… — Jack Welch Book Copy Share Image
You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6%… — Jack Welch Challenges Copy Share Image
What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do. — Jack Welch Company Copy Share Image
Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. — Jack Welch Ability Copy Share Image
What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia? — Jack Welch Asia Copy Share Image
If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow. — Jack Welch Business 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
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
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
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
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
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
