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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Jack Welch

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.
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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.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
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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.
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
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If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
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I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
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Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.
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Some people have better ideas than others some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.
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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else will.
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The team with the best players wins.
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