Jack Welch Leader Quotations

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

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.