Latest Jack Welch Quotes from Interviews

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• Nothing is worse than the person in their 40s who says, 'I'm not going to learn this.' 'I don't carry an iPad.' That will label you and put you right in the corner. Some people do it as a badge of honor. I've seen them myself, they walk around bragging [about not knowing much about technology].

  Jack Welch

  Technology, Ipads, Knowing

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

  Jack Welch

  Leader, Wonder, Fit

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Winning, Giving

  Source: www.cnbc.com

• 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.

  Jack Welch

  Team, People, Add

  Source: edition.cnn.com

• Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

  Jack Welch

  Soccer, Team, Winning

  Source: edition.cnn.com

• You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

  Jack Welch

  Thinking, Careers, Pages

• I don't think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.

  Jack Welch

  Moving, Thinking, Reason

• Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.

  Jack Welch

  Taken, Gears, World

• No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.

  Jack Welch

  Keys, Important, Projects

• Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.

  Jack Welch

  Important, Initiative

• 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.

  Jack Welch

  Believe, Flavor Of The Month, People

• Most organizations fail in driving change.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, Driving, Failing

• In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

  Jack Welch

  Important, Differentiation, Trouble

• The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.

  Jack Welch

  Opportunity, Process, Bigs

• When there's change, there's opportunity.

  Jack Welch

  Opportunity

• People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Player, Ideas

• The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.

  Jack Welch

  Pain, Ideas, Salary

• 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.

  Jack Welch

  Games, People, Next

• I think every leader has an obligation - the absolute obligation - to treat everyone fairly. But they also have the obligation to treat everyone differently. Because people aren't all the same, and the last thing you ever want to do, in my opinion, is let the best in your organization be treated like the worst in your organization. It does nothing for your future.

  Jack Welch

  Thinking, Organization, People

• Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

  Jack Welch

  Reality, Views, People

• Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.

  Jack Welch

  Kings, Cash

  "Jack Welch Gives 'Em Hell At Vf/Bloomberg Panel" by Mike Hogan, www.vanityfair.com. May 29, 2009.

• If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Games, Creating

  "Jack Welch Gives 'Em Hell at VF/Bloomberg Panel". “No Visibility Ahead: Predicting What’s Next” panel, co-hosted by Vanity Fair and Bloomberg, www.vanityfair.com. May 29, 2009.