395 Quotes by Jack Welch

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it...

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.

The team with the best players wins.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

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 for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.