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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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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
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People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
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Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.
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In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.
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