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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.

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
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First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival.
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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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Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
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You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
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I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.
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For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
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If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.
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If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.
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Some people have better ideas than others some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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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.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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When it's time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.
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Don't lose youself on the way to the top.
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You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.
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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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Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.
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