Jack Welch
Businessman
1935-11-19
Quotes by Jack Welch
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Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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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 that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
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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 stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.
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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 can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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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.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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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.
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
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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 the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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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.
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