Jack Welch
United States
Born on 19 Nov 1935
Business Executive / Author
Born on 19 Nov 1935
Business Executive / Author
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An overburdened, stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
'Quotes of the Year,' Financial Times (London) (1989)
To be vital, an organization has to repot itself, start again, get new ideas, renew itself. And I... should disappear from the company so my successor feels totally free.
Quoted in 'The Ultimate Manager,' Fortune (1999)
I don't like the word empowerment. I think the word we're really talking about is involvement... We want eveiyone to have a say.
Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they've known since childhood.
Harvard Business Review (1989)
People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science; we've chosen one of the world's more simple professions.
Harvard Business Review (1989)
You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
If you find a way to get rid of the hierarchical nonsense and allow ideas to flourish, it doesn't matter if you're in Budapest or Beijing.
Financial Times (London) (1997)
Most global corporations have three or four competitors, and you know who they are.
Harvard Business Review (1989)
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays