Jack Welch

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.

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.

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.

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

Every employee, not just the senior people, should know how a company is doing.

There is no straight line to a dream.

Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.