Jack Welch Speaks

"We come to work everyday on the razor's edge of a competitive battle."

"Jack Welch has a boss, too: GE's board of directors."

"What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China, and Southeast Asia?"

"I want a revolution, and I want it to start at Crotonville."

"I never associate passion with the word manager, and I've never seen a leader without it."

"Too often we measure everything and understand nothing."

"The ultimate competitive advantage lies in an organization's ability to learn and rapidly transform that learning into action."

"It took some 5,000 GE employees three years to hammer out GE's value statement, with input from Welch."

"The wisdom may lie in changing the institution while it's still winning?reinvigorating a business, in fact, while it's making more money than anyone ever dreamed it could make. "

"When a business becomes productive, it gains control of its destiny."

"To be a leader in domestic markets is not enough. Globalization is essential."

"Simply by eliminating the company's top operating level, the sector, we saved $40 million."

"We are betting everything on our people?empowering them, giving them resources, and getting out of their way. "

"Central to the cultural revolution at GE was a process called workout."

"To simplify the business environment and focus his managers' thinking, Welch asks them to prepare one-page answers to five strategic questions."

"Welch knows that boundaryless is not a graceful word. Yet it conveys the message."

"We have found that be reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible."

"You've got to have incredible energy to lead any organization. You've got to be on fire, if you will."