395 Quotes by Jack Welch

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

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I’m pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That’s what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.

Companies don’t give job security. Only satisfied customers do.

Make winners out of every business in your company. Don’t carry losers.

You can’t grow long-term if you can’t eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by.

Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don’t stick to the established channels. They’re informal. They’re straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. 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.