Jack Welch Quotes

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

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

Change before you have to.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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

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

There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

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

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

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

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

Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.

The secret of success is changing the way you think.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.