Jack Welch Quotes - Page 8

Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.

Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'

Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else will.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

"Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?"

I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.