Jack Welch Quotes

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

  Jack Welch

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• We’ve only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

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• I was afraid of the internet… because I couldn’t type.

  Jack Welch

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• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  Jack Welch

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• Be candid with everyone.

  Jack Welch

• Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.

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• Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

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• 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.

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

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• If GE’s strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

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  Topics in Leadership, Power

  Tags in Dollars, Investment, China, Strategy

• The team with the best players wins.

  Jack Welch

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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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