Quote #19

Change before you have to.

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  1. Be number 1 or 2 in your business or get out.
  2. Don't do what they ask you. Do what they ask you plus other insight.
  3. An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bo…
  4. From the day I joined GE to the day I was named CEO, twenty years later, my bosses cautioned me about my candor. I was labeled abrasive and…
  5. An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
  6. Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
  7. Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just …
  8. I was afraid of the Internet: because I couldn't type.

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