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.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

Don't make the process harder than it is.

You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.