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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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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
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Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.
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Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.
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In the end, your integrity is all you've got.
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You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
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When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.
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Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.
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The secret of success is changing the way you think.
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Someone, somewhere has a better idea.
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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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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.
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Protecting underperformers always backfires.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.
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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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