Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. – Jack Welch
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business. – 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
Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919