Quotes by Jack Welch

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

“Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”

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

“Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.”

“I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.”

“I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”

“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.”

“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 offerin...”

“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 fo...”

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

“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 chew...”

“Change before you have to.”

“Don't manage - lead change before you have to.”

“Control your own destiny or someone else will.”

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

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

“A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate peop...”

“The Internet is the Viagra of big business.”

“At the heart of this culture is an understanding that an organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage.”

“Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone—from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will ta...”