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Jack Welch

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they dont have to work hard. – Jack Welch

Ive learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. Its got the market. Its got consumer confidence and its got banks throwing – I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. – Jack Welch

If GEs strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century. – Jack Welch

If you dont have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you dont take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. Its crazy. – Jack Welch

I was afraid of the internet… because I couldnt type. – Jack Welch

Dont manage – lead change before you have to. – Jack Welch

An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. – Jack Welch

Control your own destiny or someone else will. – Jack Welch

Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition. – Jack Welch

Change before you have to. – Jack Welch

The Internet is the Viagra of big business. – Jack Welch

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. – Jack Welch

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

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. – Jack Welch

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