Jack Welch quotes

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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

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

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

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.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

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

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

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

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

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.