Jack Welch Quotes

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high.

Rapport equals trust plus comfort.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

I like working with people. I like talking to people.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

I'm a pretty good listener.

Sometimes, it's hard for me to communicate my discomfort because I want to be respectful. At the same time, I've learned that you have to ask people on your team to help you out.

From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

Other players can be leaders on the pitch, but not all players can understand another player, so I try to. You need to understand the heart of another player. I try to read other people, to figure out how I can joke with this guy, how I can help him or touch his heart.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

Almost everything in leadership comes back to relationships.

Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?