Jack Welch Quotes

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.

HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.

Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved

For me the most important thing is to continue to work with the best people that I can find, and that will have me.

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.