Jack Welch Quotes

Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

I'm a person who likes to tackle challenges. Google was a challenge when I got there. I think AOL's a challenge. The way we run the company is a very team-focused environment.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

I'm always learning, always trying new things, because you have to to stay fresh.

Impact is just always improving at all angles. There is a lot of creativity and thought that goes into everything.

I know I've got a lot more to learn, so I'm just taking it game by game.

Good teams don't make the same mistake twice.

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

It's great to just keep going and throw new stuff out there.