Jack Welch Leadership Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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