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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

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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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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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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.
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In the end, your integrity is all you've got.
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We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
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The secret of success is changing the way you think.
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
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A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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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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Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
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Control your destiny or somebody will.
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People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.
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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
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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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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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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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Don't lose youself on the way to the top.
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