"The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.“


-Jack Welch

posted in work


The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

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

-Jack Welch

teacherView Quote
"You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that."

-Jack Welch

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

-Jack Welch

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

-Jack Welch

strengthView Quote
"I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world."

-Jack Welch

moneyView Quote
"What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros."

-Jack Welch

medicalView Quote

More Quotes About work

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."

-Tom Stoppard

workView Quote
"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."

-Jeff Bridges

workView Quote
"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."

-Tom Stoppard

workView Quote
"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

-Novalis

workView Quote
"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."

-Caspar David Friedrich

workView Quote
"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

-Brian Eno

workView Quote