Jack Welch Quotes

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

For his failures, Rumsfeld must go!

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

You have to take care of your guys. If a guy underperforms, you get rid of him. If a guy overperforms, you take care of him.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've thrown victory away in a game you should have won.

It's not an excuse, but I'd say I didn't perform well in the big fights because I wasn't prepared properly.

It's not good to end the year with a loss.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

He's a specialist in failure.

If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.