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You Quotes by Jack Welch
- Change before you have to.
- Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
- There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
- If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost…
- You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
- I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And…
- If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
- 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 and implement it.…
- A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you…
- One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go…
- The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use…
- 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…
- If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
- Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
- You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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