Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department, then the sky really is the limit. If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Leadership is influence.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.