Jack Welch

I don’t think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved.

Jack Welch

I was afraid of the internet… because I couldn’t type.

Jack Welch

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

Jack Welch

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

Jack Welch

If you’ve got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.

Jack Welch

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that’s the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

Jack Welch

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Jack Welch

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You’ve got to be on the lunatic fringe.

Jack Welch

One of the ways we’ll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Jack Welch

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

Jack Welch