Memorable Quotes by Jack Welch
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
“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.”
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.”
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
“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.”
“Change before you have to.”
“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”
“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”
“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.”
“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”
“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.”
“Culture drives great results.”
