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Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Jack Welch

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Businessperson
Engineer
Journalist
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.
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...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.
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Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.
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There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.
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If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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