Jack Welch

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

Jack Welch

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

Jack Welch

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

Jack Welch

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one’s sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

Jack Welch

As a leader, you have no right to have any employee wonder how they fit in and where they are going.

Jack Welch

As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.

Jack Welch

At the end of the day, effective mission statements balance the possible and the impossible. They give people a clear sense of the direction to profitability and the inspiration to feel they are part of something big and important.

Jack Welch

Be candid with everyone.

Jack Welch

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It’s just cultural. People just don’t want to do it.

Jack Welch

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

Jack Welch