“At the heart of this culture is an understanding that an '''organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage.” Jack Welch
“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 Welch
“I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more— from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.” Jack Welch
“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.” Jack Welch
“Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.” Jack Welch
“Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.” Jack Welch
“Clearly for most Americans, everything is getting worse and worse. The only beneficiaries are the Chainsaw Dunlaps and Neutron Jacks.” Jack Welch
“CEO of General Electric for 30 years, Jack Welch was declared the greatest manager of the 20th century. Focusing firmly on results, he revolutionized management to achieve phenomenal growth for his company.” Jack Welch
“I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.” Sam Walton
““I’m a really bad test taker and I ended up bombing the LSATs twice and I was not able to get into a law school,” she says.” Sara Blakely
“She did the next best thing, she says. She drove to Disney World in Florida and asked if she could play the role of Goofy.” Sara Blakely
“The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.” Larry Page
“I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.” Larry Page
“If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have [a question] answered for you before you ask it.” Larry Page
“It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.” Larry Page
“Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it” Larry Page
“Page has long been reclusive, a computer scientist who pondered technical problems away from the public eye, preferring to chase moonshots over magazine covers.” Larry Page
“re gmail, great user experience has helped other email systems (others have increased storage etc). there are areas that have been overlooked in industry, much as search was overlooked in the 90's. thinks they have technology, distribution infrastructure to address those things.” Sergey Brin
“When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.” Sergey Brin
“We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.” Sergey Brin
“... whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.” Sergey Brin
“Having come from a totalitarian country, the Soviet Union, and having seen the hardships that my family endured–both while there and trying to leave—I certainly am particularly sensitive to the stifling of individual liberties.” Sergey Brin
“Sergey’s the Google playboy. He was known for getting his fingers caught in the cookie jar with employees that worked for the company in the masseuse room. He got around.” Sergey Brin
“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.” Seth Godin
“The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.” Seth Godin
“I will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that [the lawsuit] was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.” Oprah Winfrey
“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.” Oprah Winfrey
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” Oprah Winfrey
“Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.” Oprah Winfrey
“I would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.” Oprah Winfrey
“I had a lot of wealthy men calling, telling me that they would run my campaign and raise $1 billion for me. I am actually humbled by the fact that people think that I could be a leader of the free world, but it's just not in my spirit. . . it's not in my DNA” Oprah Winfrey
“I know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people.” Oprah Winfrey
“Nourish what makes you feel confident, connected, contented. Opportunity will rise to meet you.” Oprah Winfrey
“[Contradicting an assertion from Angela Davis] Small steps lead to big accomplishments.” Oprah Winfrey
“[Winfrey attributes this aphorism to Jeff Weiner, founder of Linkedin] Failure is what’s going to humble you.” Oprah Winfrey
“[At the beginning of the midterm campaigns,] I said it was up to the citizens of Pennsylvania, but I will tell you all this — if I lived in Pennsylvania, I would've already cast my vote for John Fetterman, for many reasons” Oprah Winfrey
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey