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Control your destiny or somebody will.

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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
Manager
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.
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Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
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Keep learning don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth always assume that you can learn something from someone else.
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The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
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If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by
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What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.
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Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.
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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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Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them.... everyone deserves a chance.... you can never let yourself be a victim.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
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If you reward candor, you'll get it.
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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 there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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