Jack Welch Quotes

• Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Life

• Success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to changes as they occur.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Change

• The world belongs to passionate driven people.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Life

• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destiny, Inspiration

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

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realism, Reality, Inspiration

• Excellence and competitiveness are  totally compatible with honesty and  integrity. The A student, the four minute miler, the high jump record holder-all strong winners-can achieve  those results without resorting to  cheating. People who cheat are simply  weak.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity

• In the end, integrity is all you’ve got.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity

• Tell people the truth because they know the truth anyway.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Honesty

• If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Inspirational, Motivational

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

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Confusion

  Tags in Willingness, Confusion

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

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Competition

• 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.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Competition

• We bring together the best ideas – turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Managers, Meetings, Best, Ideas

• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Combination, Productivity, Bring

• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Gardener, People, Talent, Weed

• 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

  Topics in Management, Opportunity

  Tags in Compensation, Wing

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

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem

• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today’s world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Decisions, Job

  Tags in Provide, Managers, Tough

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

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Action, Learning

• Change before you have to.

  Jack Welch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change

Jack Welch (31)

Birth:	19th November, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, USA. He is an American businessman and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. In 2006, Welch's net worth was estimated at $720 million. He earned a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1957. He earned an MS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1958. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1960. He has written several books include: Jack: Straight from the Gut(with John A. Byrne), Winning(with Suzy Welch), and Winning: The Answers(with Suzy Welch).

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