Quote

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
Author
Businessperson
Engineer
Journalist
Manager
Writer
Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
Jr.
John Francis Jack Welch
Jr.
Others
Workforce
Become
Educational
Leadership
Leader
Inspiration
Vision
Growing
Success

More quotes by Jack Welch

Image
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frustrates teams and bosses to no end.
Jack Welch
Image
Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup, and then get going again with renewed speed, conviction and confidence?
Jack Welch
Image
...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.
Jack Welch
Image
When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.
Jack Welch
Image
Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.
Jack Welch
Image
If you reward candor, you'll get it.
Jack Welch
Image
HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?
Jack Welch
Image
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
Image
Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
Jack Welch
Image
No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
Jack Welch
Image
Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
Jack Welch
Image
Control your destiny or somebody will.
Jack Welch
Image
Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.
Jack Welch
Image
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.
Jack Welch
Image
In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
Jack Welch
Image
The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.
Jack Welch
Image
Don't make the process harder than it is.
Jack Welch
Image
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Jack Welch
Image
Protecting underperformers always backfires.
Jack Welch