Jack Welch Leader Quotations

If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them

I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

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

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.

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

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.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

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

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

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

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be