Jack Welch

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy. ↗

— Jack Welch

#company #crazy #culture #family #home

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. ↗

— Jack Welch

#bureaucracy #reputation #stiff #stuck #you

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States. ↗

— Jack Welch

#i #leader #lifetime #mitt #mitt romney

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. ↗

— Jack Welch

#developing #gardener #had #i #job

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot. ↗

— Jack Welch

#feel #give #go #got #instill

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

— Jack Welch

#business #businesses #chemical #credit #cycle

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts. ↗

— Jack Welch

#belief #counts #creativity #efficiency #every

Change before you have to. ↗

— Jack Welch

#before #you

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? ↗

— Jack Welch

#country #only #ordained #ought #said

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. ↗

— Jack Welch

#balancing #eat #grow #long #long-term