Jack Welch

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

Jack Welch

That’s all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

Jack Welch

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.

Jack Welch

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.

Jack Welch

The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand.

Jack Welch

The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.

Jack Welch

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Jack Welch

The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you’re going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office.

Jack Welch

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.

Jack Welch

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.

Jack Welch