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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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Journalist
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Peabody
Massachusetts
John Francis Welch
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John Francis Jack Welch
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No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.
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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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I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.
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In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.
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When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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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. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.
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Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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The team with the best players wins.
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Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.
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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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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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Trust happens when leaders are transparent.
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