395 Quotes by Jack Welch

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

"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?"

Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

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

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.