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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.

— Jack Welch Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001)

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Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."

Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001)

The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.

Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001)

Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

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

Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001)

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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