Jack Welch Quotes - Page 4

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• The hero is the one with ideas.

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  Hero, Ideas

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• 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

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• In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.

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  Games, People, Next

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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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  Inspirational, Strong, Jobs

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• Be candid with everyone.

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  Inspirational, Planning, Management

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

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  Kings, Talking, Two

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• When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight.

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  Sight, Ends, Exceed

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• Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

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  Mind, Trying, Way

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• Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

  Jack Welch

  Coaching, Important, Doe

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

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  People, World, Rockets

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• If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

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  Perfect, Waiting, Answers

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• 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. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Confidence, Ambition, Self

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• 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

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• Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

  Jack Welch

  Strategy, Results, Employee

  "Simple sermon on ethics won't do". www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

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• We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

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  Motivational, Positive, Work

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• When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

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  Leader, Employee

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• Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

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  Jobs, Games, Ideas

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow.

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  Running, Cash Flow, Would Be

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• Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

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  Team, Skills, Long

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• You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.

  Jack Welch

  People, Leader, Would Be

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Business, Ambition

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

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• Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.

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  Attitude, Real, Communication

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

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Long

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

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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.

  Jack Welch

  Hard Work, Ideas, Forever

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2011.

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• It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

  Jack Welch

  Long, Waiting

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