Jack Welch

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself."

- Jack Welch

"In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell."

- Jack Welch

"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

"There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow."

- Jack Welch

"There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it."

- Jack Welch

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

"When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

- Jack Welch

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

- Jack Welch

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

- Jack Welch

"Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations."

- Jack Welch

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

- Jack Welch

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings-and put compensation as a carrier behind it-you almost don’t have to manage them."

- Jack Welch

""If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings-and put compensation as a carrier behind it-you almost don’t have to manage them.""

- Jack Welch

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

- Jack Welch

"HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?"

- Jack Welch

"Change before you have to."

- Jack Welch

""Change before you have to.""

- Jack Welch

"There is no straight line to a dream."

- Jack Welch

"I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."

- Jack Welch

"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."

- Jack Welch

"If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete."

- Jack Welch

"If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow."

- Jack Welch