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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.
Jack Welch
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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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