Jack Welch Short Quotes

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Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."

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

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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.

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Never allow anyone to get between you and your customers or your suppliers.

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Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

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

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

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

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Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

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We tried like hell to look at every new product plan in the context of what the smartest competitor could do to trump us.

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

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The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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