395 Quotes by Jack Welch

Don’t lose youself on the way to the top.

One of the ways we’ll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Companies win when their managers make a clear and meaningful distinction between top- and bottom-performing businesses and people, when they cultivate the strong and cull the weak. Companies suffer when every business and person is treated equally and bets are sprinkled all around like rain on the ocean.

If you reward candor, you’ll get it.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies – in the minds of those closest to the work.

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you’ve got somebody who’s raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give ’em that shot.

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.

Get the best player because whether it’s soccer or whether it’s anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

Underneath, you would surely see that the best care passionately about their people – about their growth and success. And you would see that they themselves are comfortable in their own skins. They’re real, filled with candor and integrity, optimism and humanity.