Jack Welch Quotes

Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

Leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

You cannot lead without passion. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Real EntreLeaders care deeply, and that is basically what passion is. Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

Despite his unimpressive appearance and manner, he was a brilliant fellow with a crystal-clear mind.... It was just that, when it came time for him to act like an executive, he was like a great many other people; when the time comes to make decisions, they have difficulty doing it.

George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.

Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

A leader gets things done.

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.