Jack Welch Quotes

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

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle – the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

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.

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.

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 take a job because your mother wants you to. Don’t be a victim. You own your decision.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.

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

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

The world belongs to passionate driven people.