A Collection of Quotes from Jack Welch

A Collection of Quotes
from
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

“Before you become a
leader, success is all
about growing
yourself. When you
become a leader
success is all about
growing others.”
- Jack Welch

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

“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

“Differentiation favors
people who are
energetic and
extroverted and
undervalues people who
are shy and introverted,
even if they are
talented.”
- Jack Welch

“Change before
you have to.”
- Jack Welch

“Control your
own destiny or
someone else
will.”
- Jack Welch

“I always follow
4E's, Energy,
Energize, Edge,
and Execute.”
- Jack Welch

“Every job you
take is a gamble
that could
increase your
options or shut
them down.”
- Jack Welch Infographic published by Neil Beyersdorf

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

“If you don’t
have a
competitive
advantage,
don’t compete.”
- Jack Welch

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

“Life is too short
to spend every
day doing
something you
don’t love.”
- Jack Welch

“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

“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

“The one thing
that hasn’t
changed is the
team that fields
the best players
wins.”

“Leadership, very
simply, is about two
things: 1) Truth and
trust. 2) Ceaselessly
seeking the former,
relentlessly building
the latter.”

“the only career
worth pursuing is
the one that turns
your crank.”
- 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

“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

“No vision is worth
the paper it's
printed on unless it
is communicated
constantly and
reinforced with
rewards.”

“The mission
announces exactly
where you are going,
and the values
describe the behaviors
that will get you
there.”
- Jack Welch

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

“Leaders make
sure people not
only see the
vision, they live
and breathe
it.”

“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

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

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

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

“Reducing a complex
problem to a simple
chart excited the hell
out of me.”
- Jack Welch

“An organization’s ability
to learn, and translate
that learning into action
rapidly, is the ultimate
competitive advantage.”
- 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

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