Jack Welch Inspirational Quotes

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

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Business, Technology

  "101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists: Insider Secrets from Top Writers". Book by Andrew McAleer, September 1, 2008.

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

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

• 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

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Top Management

• Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Long

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. March 17, 2009.

• I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Computer, Internet

• 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

  Inspirational, Ideas, Intellectual

• 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.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Two, Long

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

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

• 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

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

• The team with the best players wins.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Team, Winning

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.7, Harper Collins

• Be candid with everyone.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Planning, Management

• 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

  Inspirational, Weed, Jobs

• 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

  Inspirational, Strong, Jobs

• Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Business, Ambition

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch and ‎John A. Byrne, 2001.

• An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Business, People

• Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Thinking, Keys

• The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Dream, Jobs

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

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Thinking, Ninety Nine

• 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

  Inspirational, Games, Fulfillment

• No one is guaranteed a job in this.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Jobs

• Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Strong, Skills

• We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Successful, Climate

• This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Shows

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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