A Quote by Jack Welch

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

Jack Welch

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Everything Manufacturing Out People Stamp Try Variance

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Jack Welch
American - Businessman
November 19, 1935 - March 1, 2020

CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

Marcus Buckingham

I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.

Travis Morrison

There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.

Fyodor Tyutchev

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

Dorothea Dix

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

Samuel Parr

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

H. G. Wells

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.

William Shakespeare

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

Edward Coke

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Edward Coke

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

Ronald Fisher

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

James Mackintosh

A lot of people like me who worked in Republican politics had a personal set of beliefs on issues that were at variance with the candidates that we worked for.

Steve Schmidt

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Samuel Smiles

The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast - a little bit of variance on the coast - I'm from Ohio, and I understand that.

Dan Gilbert

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