He took that all out of context. He just didn't understand the point I was making.
CHRIS WELCH Control your own destiny or someone else will.
JACK WELCH If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio...
JACK WELCH One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo...
JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous...
JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
JACK WELCH There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ...
JACK WELCH You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH The team with the best players wins.
JACK WELCH Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus...
JACK WELCH A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ...
JACK WELCH Change before you have to.
JACK WELCH Be candid with everyone.
JACK WELCH The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
JACK WELCH Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
JACK WELCH I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a Br...
RAQUEL WELCH I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my ...
RAQUEL WELCH I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about read...
RAQUEL WELCH I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first m...
FLORENCE WELCH I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and sud...
FLORENCE WELCH I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorp...
FLORENCE WELCH I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects lik...
FLORENCE WELCH I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
FLORENCE WELCH The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and tryin...
FLORENCE WELCH I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
FLORENCE WELCH I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was ...
FLORENCE WELCH The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of dif...
FLORENCE WELCH It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being...
FLORENCE WELCH You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
FLORENCE WELCH I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
FLORENCE WELCH I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part o...
FLORENCE WELCH I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
FLORENCE WELCH The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
FLORENCE WELCH I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that ...
FLORENCE WELCH I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means tha...
FLORENCE WELCH Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say somethi...
FLORENCE WELCH When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energie...
FLORENCE WELCH I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
FLORENCE WELCH The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
ROBERT WELCH I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continu...
MICHAEL WELCH The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we u...
JOHN WELCH Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered ...
JOHN WELCH Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relen...
JOHN WELCH Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
RAQUEL WELCH I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict...
SANDY WELCH The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
JOHN WELCH An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the ...
JACK WELCH To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and...
COLIN WELCH If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wonde...
PRISCILLA WELCH The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do ...
JACK WELCH The mind can also be an erogenous zone.
RAQUEL WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's w...
JACK WELCH Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe ...
PETER WELCH In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you...
JACK WELCH But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I...
FLORENCE WELCH An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ulti...
JACK WELCH Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they wi...
JACK WELCH The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that wel...
JACK WELCH Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
JACK WELCH Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ...
JACK WELCH Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is...
JACK WELCH America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whet...
PETER WELCH CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They co...
JACK WELCH If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. Th...
PETER WELCH Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will
JACK WELCH Our 60-plus came together and worked well as a group to brainstorm ideas, identify issues and shortf...
BARNEY WELCH The facilitators captured the ideas, the brainstorming, the feedback and the state has provided a te...
BARNEY WELCH This is all in support of a national support plan.
BARNEY WELCH We certainly have critical resources in this region that impact not only the state, but the nation. ...
BARNEY WELCH I think it's terrible. I'm really sad about it.
BARBARA WELCH It's a fact of life. I, for one, don't think the people at 200 Elizabeth St. are just throwing $100 ...
BARBARA WELCH I do not think they just hire people to be hiring them. I do think that when they hire up there, it'...
BARBARA WELCH I'm not necessarily for them, but I'm not against them either.
BARBARA WELCH It broke my heart when they put the handcuffs on her and took her away. I think she needs to spend t...
BARBARA WELCH We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is...
RAQUEL WELCH Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
JAMES WELCH At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. ...
FLORENCE WELCH The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperat...
PETER WELCH You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let ...
JACK WELCH Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relen...
JACK WELCH I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calc...
RAQUEL WELCH I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, m...
FLORENCE WELCH I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas ...
FLORENCE WELCH I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't b...
RAQUEL WELCH I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont&...
PETER WELCH You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can ...
JACK WELCH The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
JACK WELCH My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the s...
FLORENCE WELCH I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I ...
BRIAN WELCH Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ...
JACK WELCH Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She's revolutionary; she's a warrior.
RAQUEL WELCH My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. An...
FLORENCE WELCH 'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, waili...
FLORENCE WELCH The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual pro...
JACK WELCH I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarlies...
GILLIAN WELCH I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.
BRIAN WELCH I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing...
BRIAN WELCH It creates an unworkable situation with more questions than answers.
BRIAN WELCH It creates an unworkable situation … with more questions than answers.
BRIAN WELCH And the others all have three feet of water in their homes.
BRIAN WELCH I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His mo...
BRIAN WELCH My family never took me to church except a couple of times. But when I was 12, I hung out with this ...
BRIAN WELCH I just love those guys, even though they think I'm crazy. I pray for them every day.
BRIAN WELCH I couldn't live like that with my friends worshipping money. I couldn't live like that. People wante...
BRIAN WELCH I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about...
BRIAN WELCH Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the major...
PETER WELCH 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of t...
FLORENCE WELCH Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But ...
PETER WELCH I have 30 years of military service, having served in combat.
BILL WELCH I support the right of a woman to choose. I'm not going to be an advocate for abortion, but neither ...
BILL WELCH The human toll and the toll on our community will be a challenge that all of us are going to have to...
BILL WELCH The hurricanes had us a little worried this year about what might happen to our giving. But the peop...
BILL WELCH It's one thing to send construction teams -- and that's great -- but it's quite another to ask these...
BOBBY WELCH Praise God for those humble, generous folks. However, we need many, many more people and churches re...
BOBBY WELCH Despite this horrific tragedy and temporary setback, Southern Baptists in Alabama, Mississippi and L...
BOBBY WELCH Despite the best efforts of the news media, it's impossible to sense the confusion, observe the dest...
BOBBY WELCH I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started g...
FLORENCE WELCH There's a duality in every man and every woman.
RAQUEL WELCH I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep....
RAQUEL WELCH I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in s...
FLORENCE WELCH In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.
PETER WELCH I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
RAQUEL WELCH Until now salmon have just vanished into the big black box of the ocean.
DAVID WELCH The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy effi...
PETER WELCH Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, whil...
PETER WELCH What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the...
JACK WELCH I grow 10 heirloom varieties in my garden, but I get mine locally from Green Acres on Route 51 near ...
RICK WELCH The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a b...
JACK WELCH If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, per...
JACK WELCH We see the political process in Iraq as providing an opportunity to the country to rebuild itself .....
DAVID WELCH My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top...
JACK WELCH The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and t...
JAMES WELCH You have distress selling. We're in a market that is slowly dying out. There's not much volume at al...
JOHN WELCH Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses....
PETER WELCH We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies...
JACK WELCH I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
FLORENCE WELCH I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do d...
FLORENCE WELCH I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my prot...
FLORENCE WELCH I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
FLORENCE WELCH I was afraid of it [the internet]... because I couldn't type.
JACK WELCH Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, ...
JACK WELCH Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imaginat...
JAMES WELCH Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the governme...
JAMES WELCH Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people...
PETER WELCH It's a very legitimate point.
ANDY WELCH It'll be a difference from spaghetti. They get a lot of spaghetti.
PATRICIA WELCH We're all asking where we are going to go.
BARRY WELCH I'm the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems l...
RAQUEL WELCH Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there we...
PETER WELCH We need to do a better job as an office of knowing what information we have and letting people know ...
ANDY WELCH Some of those kids did have difficulties, and there were one or two that police officers had to sit ...
ANDY WELCH In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency o...
JACK WELCH Our 60-plus came together and worked well as a group to brainstorm ideas, identify issues and shortf...
BARNEY WELCH Like the peace of God, NCAA rules passeth all understanding. The rules regarding what constitutes an...
WELCH SUGGS We can reconstruct which fish went where and therefore which fish stock -- which are populations of ...
DAVID WELCH She's a seller, ... And it's amazing to me because at this point, a lot of us don't remember her any...
RAQUEL WELCH I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake ...
RAQUEL WELCH Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
RAQUEL WELCH Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
RAQUEL WELCH I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it wa...
RAQUEL WELCH I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a grea...
RAQUEL WELCH Culture drives great results.
JACK WELCH I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ...
FLORENCE WELCH This shows you are never too old to get surprised, ... In this case, the European regulators' demand...
JACK WELCH If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps...
JACK WELCH We were comparing images taken of the same patch of sky at different times to locate brightening or ...
DOUG WELCH There is no voluntary HAZMAT team in Utah,
ROBERT WELCH If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
JACK WELCH Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
JACK WELCH If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio...
JACK WELCH Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
JACK WELCH [Noble also completed five of eight passes, including a 20-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Noble.] A l...
JOHN WELCH Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you b...
RAQUEL WELCH The mind can also be an erogenous zone
RAQUEL WELCH I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states
RAQUEL WELCH You can't fake listening. It shows.
RAQUEL WELCH I want to continue what (former Principal) Ralph Olsen has done, but I'm not Ralph Olsen,
MICHAEL WELCH Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.
CAROL WELCH It doesn't seem to me you can push the pause button on terror.
DAVID WELCH It was hard playing with just one ref. I am happy with how we played because they are so physical, b...
DANIELLE WELCH I remember as a very young child being warned that libraries and bookstores were quiet places where ...
WENDY WELCH Fantastic [on School for Seduction]
DENISE WELCH They're not just sisters and twins. They're best friends, and they care genuinely about each other.
CHELSI WELCH You're just shaking your head sometimes. What can you do?
CHELSI WELCH How we practice affects our playing time, and I felt like I had a really good week of practice.
CHELSI WELCH I've found it to be extremely hard. I haven't been in this situation in any of my career and I'm sti...
CHELSI WELCH These legacy costs have got to be dealt with, and the manufacturer has to come out with new and bett...
JACK WELCH To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get ...
PETER WELCH There are almost no viruses for Linux. Certainly I've never seen one.
TOM WELCH They look at the food you can buy, or find a job and get all the things you need for your apartment.
TOM WELCH They are seeing examples of what it takes to be good citizens, and what leaders are doing to try to ...
TOM WELCH Joey Murphy twisted his ankle in the second quarter and Trevor Sheehan played a great game for us in...
TOM WELCH Sometimes you don't receive because you don't ask. Schools are competitive. They want numbers. They ...
TOM WELCH We did not do anything that violated the law. We did not do anything that other cities hadn't done, ...
TOM WELCH That's where I think the money went.
TOM WELCH