395 Quotes by Jack Welch

If GE’s strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

Don’t take a job because your mother wants you to. Don’t be a victim. You own your decision.

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

Don’t make the process harder than it is.

When launching something new, you have to go for it – “playing not to lose” can never be an option.

I believe that in any initiative, you can’t have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

The team with the best players usually does win – this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

The mission announces exactly where you are going, and the values describe the behaviors that will get you there.

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