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Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

Jack Welch

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Jack Welch
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: November 19
Died: 2020
Died: March 1
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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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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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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Protecting underperformers always backfires.
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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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Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
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A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.
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Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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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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The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.
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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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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.
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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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Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.
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