Jack Welch Quotes

Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

I look at companies as price-players or quality-players. The only way to go with J.Crew was quality.

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

The PC business is not about price, it's about value, or what you can give the customer for his or her money.

The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

Differentiate your products, provide great service and don't even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.

You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.

Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don't, well, of course you should leave the market.

Quality will save our company.

Competition matters.

To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product.

There are hundreds of competitors in the direct marketing of computers. We have been very successful because of quality, price, service and the way we treat the customer.

Our focus is on the customers and improving their experience. We believe that if we do that well, competition, prices, and profits will all take care of themselves.

The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.

The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service.