Jack Welch

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

"Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act."

"The team with the best players wins."

"Be candid with everyone."

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

"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."

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

"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."

"Change before you have to."

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

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