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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it — Jack Welch

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. — Jack Welch

The team with the best players wins. — Jack Welch

Someone, somewhere has a better idea. — Jack Welch

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer. — Jack Welch

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. — Jack Welch

Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company. — Jack Welch

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple. — Jack Welch

People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted. — Jack Welch

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. — Jack Welch

When you own your choices, you own their consequences. — Jack Welch

You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand. — Jack Welch

The Internet is the Viagra of big business. — Jack Welch

This shows you are never too old to get surprised. — Jack Welch

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. — Jack Welch

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances. — Jack Welch

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career. — Jack Welch

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation. — Jack Welch

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up. — Jack Welch

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur. — Jack Welch

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies. — Jack Welch

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. — Jack Welch

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people. — Jack Welch

Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it. — Jack Welch

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor. — Jack Welch

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all. — Jack Welch

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. — Jack Welch

People development should be a daily event, integrated into every aspect of your regular goings-on. — Jack Welch

Number one, cash is king ... number two, communicate ... number three, buy or bury the competition. — Jack Welch

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets. — Jack Welch

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times. — Jack Welch

We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game. — Jack Welch

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell. — Jack Welch

Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision. — Jack Welch

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more. — Jack Welch

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed. — Jack Welch

If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do. — Jack Welch

As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization. — Jack Welch

If you reward candor, you'll get it. — Jack Welch

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world, — Jack Welch

Don't manage - lead change before you have to. — Jack Welch

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader. — Jack Welch

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe. — Jack Welch

What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal. — Jack Welch

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. — Jack Welch

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. — Jack Welch

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. — Jack Welch

The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game. — Jack Welch

Shun the incremental and go for the leap. — Jack Welch

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers. — Jack Welch

The secret of success is changing the way you think. — Jack Welch

Failing to differentiate among employees - and holding on to bottom-tier performers - is actually the cruelest form of management there is. — Jack Welch

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up. — Jack Welch

Every great leader has a generosity gene. — Jack Welch

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning. — Jack Welch

Give me a highly successful unionized industry. — Jack Welch

Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important. — Jack Welch

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer. — Jack Welch

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go. — Jack Welch

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted. — Jack Welch

All of management is about self-confidence — Jack Welch

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired? — Jack Welch

Change before you have to. — Jack Welch

You can look at the situation and feel victimized. Or you can look at it and be excited about conquering the challenges and opportunities it presents. — Jack Welch

IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward. — Jack Welch

Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer yes to the question, Am I living the life I choose? — Jack Welch

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers — Jack Welch

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple. — Jack Welch

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything. — Jack Welch

Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing. — Jack Welch

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. — Jack Welch

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business. — Kushal Pal Singh

Don't make the process harder than it is. — Jack Welch

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders. — Jack Welch

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. — Jack Welch

The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards. — Jack Welch

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else. — Jack Welch

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence. — Jack Welch

I was afraid of the internet ... because I couldn't type. — Jack Welch

The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes. — Jack Welch

I never put myself out there as an employment agency, — Jack Welch

Don't lose youself on the way to the top. — Jack Welch

I've learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough. — Jack Welch

I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here. — Jack Welch

If a job doesn't excite you on some level - just because of the stuff of it - don't settle. — Jack Welch

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead. — Jack Welch

The main social responsibility for a company is to win. — Jack Welch

Trust happens when leaders are transparent. — Jack Welch

Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think. — Jack Welch

When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight. — Jack Welch

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. — Jack Welch

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? — Jack Welch

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy. — Jack Welch

I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position. — Jack Welch

You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page. — Jack Welch

In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim. — Jack Welch

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less. — Jack Welch

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite. — Jack Welch

When you become a leader success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia? — Jack Welch