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The team with the best players wins.

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
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.
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It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.
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Be candid with everyone.
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When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.
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Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
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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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Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.
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If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
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Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
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The main social responsibility for a company is to win.
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I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.
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If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.
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