Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs

It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy

I was afraid of it [the internet]... because I couldn't type

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that fliesThe Internet is the Viagra of big business

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas

Control your own destiny or someone else will

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century