395 Quotes by Jack Welch

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

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

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.