395 Quotes by Jack Welch

If you reward candor, you'll get it.

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.

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

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

The world belongs to passionate driven people.

If your CFO is more important than your CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) you're nuts!

Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

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