Control your destiny or somebody will.

Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time.

The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.

Don't lose youself on the way to the top.

Change before you have to.

My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.