395 Quotes by Jack Welch

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.

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

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

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

...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.