Jack Welch Quotes - Page 10

I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here.

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%.

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

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece - meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

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.

We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.

If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

My bosses cautioned me about my candor. Now my GE career is over, and I'm telling you that it was my candor that helped make it work.

Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

I never put myself out there as an employment agency.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.