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

If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to. -- Jack Welch

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter. -- Jack Welch

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

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

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

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

Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do. -- Jack Welch

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

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were. -- 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

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

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

Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful. -- Jack Welch

Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making. -- Jack Welch

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

I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot. -- 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

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. -- Jack Welch

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

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated. -- Jack Welch

Take lack of candor ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end. -- Jack Welch

Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story. -- Jack Welch

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. -- Jack Welch

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

I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people. -- Jack Welch

If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them -- Jack Welch

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

I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved. -- Jack Welch

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

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will -- Jack Welch

Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them ... everyone deserves a chance ... you can never let yourself be a victim. -- 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

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

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity. -- Jack Welch

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. -- Jack Welch

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent. -- Jack Welch

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership's perception of you follows your behavior. -- Jack Welch

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

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

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work. -- Jack Welch

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. -- 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

Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time. -- Jack Welch

Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage. -- Jack Welch

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

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously. -- Jack Welch

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge. -- 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

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

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

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. -- Jack Welch

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will -- Jack Welch

Control your destiny or somebody will. -- Jack Welch

The world belongs to passionate driven people. -- Jack Welch

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. -- Jack Welch

Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas. -- 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

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

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by -- Jack Welch

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company. -- 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

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

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

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

The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you're going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office. -- 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

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

Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets. -- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work. -- Jack Welch

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

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people. -- Jack Welch

I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people ... If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence. -- Jack Welch

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget. -- Jack Welch

Be candid with everyone. -- Jack Welch

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete. -- Jack Welch

If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation. -- Jack Welch

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

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. -- 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

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. -- Jack Welch

So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well. -- Jack Welch

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

The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses. -- Jack Welch

If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time. -- Jack Welch

Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning. -- Jack Welch

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

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

Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are. -- Jack Welch

Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done. -- Jack Welch

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins. -- Jack Welch

"Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?" -- 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

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

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot. -- Jack Welch

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive. -- Jack Welch

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long. -- Jack Welch

If you reward candor, you'll get 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

The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal. -- 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

Someone, somewhere has a better idea. -- Jack Welch

Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession. -- Jack Welch

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers. -- Jack Welch

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel? -- 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

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. -- Jack Welch

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people. -- Jack Welch

I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities. -- Jack Welch

Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen. -- Jack Welch

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence. -- Jack Welch

You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science. -- 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

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

I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside. -- Jack Welch

Give me a highly successful unionized industry. -- Jack Welch

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

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living. -- Jack Welch

Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch

Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected. -- Jack Welch

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

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance. -- Jack Welch

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

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else. -- Jack Welch

No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers. -- Jack Welch

Every great leader has a generosity gene. -- 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

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

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate. -- Jack Welch

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

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

Today, all arrows point toward the biotech, nanotech, and information technology industries, and the convergence among them. -- 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

My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light ... And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs. -- Jack Welch

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

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

It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy. -- Jack Welch

There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition. -- Jack Welch

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

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

The hero is the one with ideas. -- Jack Welch

Trust happens when leaders are transparent. -- Jack Welch

What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed. -- Jack Welch

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

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

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

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

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

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be -- Jack Welch

If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility. -- Jack Welch

All of management is about self-confidence -- Jack Welch

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist. -- Jack Welch

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so. -- Jack Welch

If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader. -- Jack Welch

Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers. -- Jack Welch

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

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest. -- Jack Welch

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

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. -- Jack Welch

When there's change, there's opportunity. -- Jack Welch

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

Good leaders have a generosity gene. -- Jack Welch

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. -- Jack Welch

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others. -- 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

First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival. -- Jack Welch

Creative artists have great passion. -- Jack Welch

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view. -- Jack Welch

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

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. -- Jack Welch

In the end, your integrity is all you've got. -- Jack Welch

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

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

The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation. -- Jack Welch

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

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

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

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

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

Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights. -- Jack Welch

No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company. -- Jack Welch

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

No one is guaranteed a job in this. -- Jack Welch

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

RULE 2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it. -- Jack Welch

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

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere. -- Jack Welch

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

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

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

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast. -- Jack Welch

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

If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game. -- Jack Welch

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. -- Jack Welch

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

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant. -- Jack Welch

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

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

There is no straight line to a dream. -- Jack Welch

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

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

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it -- 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 your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts! -- Jack Welch

The team with the best players wins. -- 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

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. -- Jack Welch

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

Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don't love. -- 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

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

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

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

Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day -- Jack Welch

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

With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this ... how big can we grow it ... and how fast can we get there?' -- Jack Welch