Jack Welch Quotes, Thoughts and Images

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

Change before you have to.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Don't make the process harder than it is.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

Never miss out on an opportunity like a good recession.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

When there's change, there's opportunity.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

Don't lose youself on the way to the top.

The secret of success is changing the way you think.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.