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The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.

Jack Welch

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.
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In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.
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Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.
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The hero is the one with ideas.
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Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.
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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.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.
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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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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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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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No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.
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If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.
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Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.
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Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
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