A collection of quotes from a retired American business executive, author and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at GE, the company's value rose 4,000%, Jack Welch.
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Jack Welch
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John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. is a retired
American business executive, author and
chemical engineer. He was chairman and
CEO of General Electric between 1981 and
2001. During his tenure at GE, the
company's value rose 4,000%.
Born: November 19, 1935, Peabody, MA
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“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
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“Before you become a
leader, success is all
about growing
yourself. When you
become a leader
success is all about
growing others.”
- Jack Welch
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“Leaders relentlessly
upgrade their team,
using every encounter
as an opportunity to
evaluate, coach, and
build self-confidence.”
- Jack Welch
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“When you are a leader, your job
is to have all the questions. You
have to be incredibly comfortable
looking like the dumbest person
in the room. Every conversation
you have about a decision, a
proposal, or a piece of market
information has to be filled with
you saying, “What if?” and “Why
not?” and “How come?.”
- Jack Welch
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“Differentiation favors
people who are
energetic and
extroverted and
undervalues people who
are shy and introverted,
even if they are
talented.”
- Jack Welch
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“Change before
you have to.”
- Jack Welch
9. “Control your
own destiny or
someone else
will.”
- Jack Welch
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10. “I always follow
4E's, Energy,
Energize, Edge,
and Execute.”
- Jack Welch
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11. “Every job you
take is a gamble
that could
increase your
options or shut
them down.”
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12. “It is better to
act too quickly
than it is to
wait too long.”
- Jack Welch
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13. “If you don’t
have a
competitive
advantage,
don’t compete.”
- Jack Welch
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14. “IT’S SAID that
you can only live
life forward and
understand it
backward.”
- Jack Welch
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15. “Life is too short
to spend every
day doing
something you
don’t love.”
- Jack Welch
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16. “Effective people know
when to stop assessing
and make a tough call,
even without total
information. Little is
worse than a manager
who can’t cut bait.”
- Jack Welch
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17. “as Google CEO Larry
Page put it in his 2014
TED talk: “The main
thing that has caused
companies to fail, in
my view, is that they
missed the future”.”
- Jack Welch
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18. “The one thing
that hasn’t
changed is the
team that fields
the best players
wins.”
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19. “Leadership, very
simply, is about two
things: 1) Truth and
trust. 2) Ceaselessly
seeking the former,
relentlessly building
the latter.”
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20. “the only career
worth pursuing is
the one that turns
your crank.”
- Jack Welch
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21. “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
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22. “At the end of the day,
effective mission statements
balance the possible and the
impossible. They give people
a clear sense of the direction
to profitability and the
inspiration to feel they are
part of something big
and important.”
- Jack Welch
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23. “No vision is worth
the paper it's
printed on unless it
is communicated
constantly and
reinforced with
rewards.”
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24. “The mission
announces exactly
where you are going,
and the values
describe the behaviors
that will get you
there.”
- Jack Welch
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25. “Getting the right
people in the right
jobs is a lot more
important than
developing a
strategy.”
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26. “Leaders make
sure people not
only see the
vision, they live
and breathe
it.”
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27. “Learning is truly a value,
growth for every employee
is a real objective, mistakes
aren’t always fatal, and
there are lots of people
around whom you can
reach out to for coaching
and mentoring.”
- Jack Welch
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28. “Good business leaders
create a vision, articulate
the vision, passionately
own the vision, and
relentlessly drive it to
completion.”
- Jack Welch
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29. “If a job doesn’t excite
you on some level—just
because of the stuff of
it—don’t settle.”
- Jack Welch
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30. “If the rate of change on
the outside exceeds the
rate of change on the
inside, the end is near.”
- Jack Welch
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31. “Reducing a complex
problem to a simple
chart excited the hell
out of me.”
- Jack Welch
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32. “An organization’s ability
to learn, and translate
that learning into action
rapidly, is the ultimate
competitive advantage.”
- Jack Welch
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33. “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
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