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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

#business #every #globalization #innovative #like

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it. ↗

— Jack Welch

#competitiveness #essence #get #important #liberated

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. ↗

— Jack Welch

#compete #competitive #competitive advantage #you

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that. ↗

— Jack Welch

#chewing #chewing gum #commitments #deliver #delivering

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. ↗

— Jack Welch

#company #earnings #five #jerk #later

Culture drives great results. ↗

— Jack Welch

#drives #great #great results #results

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world. ↗

— Jack Welch

#around #bankers #banks #central #confidence

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work. ↗

— Jack Welch

#beat #china #country #creates #drives

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. ↗

— Jack Welch

#brains #bring #challenges #combination #compared

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing. ↗

— Billy Graham

#lost #once #privacy #realize #thing