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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

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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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Be candid with everyone.
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People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.
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You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.
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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.
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A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.
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Someone, somewhere has a better idea.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.
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With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'
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