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Jack Welch, born on November 19, 1935, is an accomplished author. His works span a variety of fields including business, management, and personal growth, and have been widely appreciated by readers.

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“The main social responsibility for a company is to win.”

Winning Social Responsibility Company Social Responsibility

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“A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.”

Winning Loss Company Leader Cutting Highest Payback

Book:Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

Source: Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

“Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.”

Ifs Way Winning Company Doubt Healthy Flow Satisfaction Customers Employee Engagement Cash Pulse Employee Engagement Customer Satisfaction Cash Flow

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“Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.”

Winning Energy Focus Player Team Soccer Best Players

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“Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.”

“You hang around with good people, you play a lot of golf, and you have a pretty good life. That's what success is all about. It's getting people you like, who want to take the hill with you, who want to win, who have the passion. This is not rocket science.”

People Want Play Passion Winning Golf Hills Good Life Good People Rockets Rocket Science

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“The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.”

Together Winning Fun Player Team Taught Losing Best Players

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“The team with the best players wins.”

Inspirational Winning Player Team Best Players Inspirational Team

Book:Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

Source: Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

“There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”

“No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”

“The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.”

People Needs Doe Winning Energy Player Team Building Majority Developing Team Building Best Players Time And Energy

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“Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.”

“You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.”

Winning Leader Popularity Contests Popularity Contest

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“So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells May Remember Winning Issues Heard Balance Mets Boss Work Life Balance Life Balance Work And Life Balance

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“Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.”

People Together Games Winning Simple Team Fields Playing Together

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“The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.”

Self Winning Simplicity Speed Self Confidence Business Success

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About the Author

Born: November 19, 1935
Known for: Author
Quotes: 254

Books & Sources

Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business LeaderRelated source material

Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To BookRelated source material

Jack: Straight from the GutRelated source material

Jack: What I've learned leading a great company and great peopleRelated source material

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