Jack Welch Quotes
Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.
I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.
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.
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
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.
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.
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.
Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.
As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.
A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
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.
What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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.
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.
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?'
Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.
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.
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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.
GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.
What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?
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.
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.
The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.
