Jack Welch
Jack Welch

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

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

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

Change before you have to.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Jack Welch
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
Jack Welch

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

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

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

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

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

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

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.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

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

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

The team with the best players wins.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

Be candid with everyone.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

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

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Jack Welch
Jack Welch

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.