Jack Welch Quotes


You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. - Jack Welch


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


You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. - Jack Welch


You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. - Jack Welch


With compliments from Jack Welch. Glad you tested this. Sorry it didn't work out. - Jack Welch


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


What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. - Jack Welch


What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal. - Jack Welch


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


We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work. - Jack Welch


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