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If you reward candor, you'll get it.
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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John Francis Jack Welch
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They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.
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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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It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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If you don't deliver, you don't earn the flexibility.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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