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Jack Welch
American
Businessman
About the author
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Years
#Country
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 don't have to manage them.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Right
#People
#Opportunity
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 pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#People
#Talent
#Job
#Water
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Competition
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 destroy jobs.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Security
#World
#Today
#Jobs
#Job
#Decisions
#Managers
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 enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Will
#May
#Running
#Software
#Productivity
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#People
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Business
#Internet
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Ideas
#Meetings
#Managers
The team with the best players wins.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Change
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Strength
#Change
#Confusion
#Company
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 is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Right
#Wrong
#Future
#Company
#Investment
#Loss
#Strategy
Be candid with everyone.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Will
#Control
#Destiny
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Change
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Reality
Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Successful
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#People
#Will
#Act
#Self
#Giving
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#World
#Ideas
#Company
#Globalization
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Internet
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Success
#Mistakes
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch,
American
Businessman
#Action
#Ability
#Learning