Quote

It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

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.
Spreads
Spread
Internet
Crazy
Like
Flu

More quotes by Jack Welch

Image
The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
Jack Welch
Image
There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.
Jack Welch
Image
HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?
Jack Welch
Image
Don't make the process harder than it is.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
Jack Welch
Image
I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
Jack Welch
Image
In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.
Jack Welch
Image
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Jack Welch
Image
Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
Jack Welch
Image
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
Jack Welch
Image
A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
Jack Welch
Image
We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.
Jack Welch
Image
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Jack Welch
Image
The secret of success is changing the way you think.
Jack Welch
Image
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
Jack Welch
Image
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.
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
All of management is about self-confidence
Jack Welch