Jack Welch: Quotes about business

Jack Welch is American executive: General Electric CEO. Explore interesting quotes on business.

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“The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.”

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 3.

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

“At the heart of this culture is an understanding that an organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage.”

Cited in: Robert Slater (1998), Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership. p. 12

“Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."”

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.

“Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.”

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.

“The best Six Sigma projects begin not inside the business but outside it, focused on answering the question—how can we make the customer more competitive? What is critical to the customer’s success?… One thing we have discovered with certainty is that anything we do that makes the customer more successful inevitably results in a financial return for us.”

As cited in: Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman, and Roland R. Cavanagh. The six sigma way. McGraw-Hill,, 2000. p. 6

“If you like business, you have to like GE. If you like ideas, you have to love GE. This is a place where ideas can flow freely from and through more than 20 separate businesses and more than 300,000 employees. Boundaryless behavior allows ideas to come from anywhere. We formalize our freewheeling style in a series of operating meetings that blend into one another.”

Section IV introduction.
Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001)

“In GE every day, there's an informal, unspoken personnel review—in the lunchroom, the hallways, and in every business meeting. That intense people focus—testing everyone in a myriad of environments—defines managing at GE. In the end, that's what GE is. We build great people, who then build great products and services.”

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 11.